Ken Jacobs Movies

Spasm (2023, 13:41, digital)

Ken and Flo Jacobs walk from an MTA bus to their apartment in the icy rain. This is transformed by a 360° camera and digital effects into an...

One of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

Experimental short film. Silent.

Suggestion: Please see 'Another Occupation' before 'Seeking the Monkey King'. Contains flicker like many of my works; avoid if you have epilepsy or...

In this unique document, Jacobs demonstrates one of his live, multi-projection "Nervous System" film performances in real time. (The Nervous System...

Anaglyph 3D film by Ken Jacobs based on a 1974 shadow play performance.

Shot in 1959, Scotch Tape is Jack Smith's first film -- a joyous, three-minute romp, in color, using Peter Duchin's rhumba "Carinhoso" for its...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Originally presented as an installation in the exhibition Evolution 2007 at Lumen in Leeds, GIFT OF FIRE devotes fetishistic attention to what is...

"Influenced by avant-garde artist-refugees from Europe, non-representational art dominated the art market after WW2 [...] Viewers offered open minds,...

The moving camera shapes the screen image with great purposefulness, using the frame of a window as fulcrum upon which to wheel about the exterior...

An examination of the history of the U.S. through archival footage and contrasting views of society, incorporating audiovisual material ranging from...

In Capitalism: Slavery, Jacobs uses a Victorian stereograph (a double-photograph) of slaves picking cotton under the watchful eye of a white overseer...

3D film by Ken Jacobs

A multi-part series of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

An unfinished 3D film using the Pulfrich filter. "We travel by train through the mountains of central and northern Italy, 3-D country; the Alps,...

This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.