Ken Jacobs Movies

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

A short by Ken Jacobs. Taormina, Sicily; Mt. Etna erupting nearby.

An anaglyph 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

This is how the film begins, duck-on-a-leash to Little Bo Peep to the revealing of the too-busy full stage-set. Each gets their close-up and the many...

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

'Blinking' 2D rendition of one of Ken Jacobs' Nervous System performances first presented in 1994.

An Eternalism film.

Fall into winter 1964, Urban Renewal forced us to move a few blocks to West of Broadway. Our Sky Socialist ‘set’ is still standing and...

Short film with Jack Smith as the mysterious leader of an even-more-mysterious cult, garbed in pseudo-papal regalia and adorned with jewelry and...

Ken Jacobs, the erstwhile master of experimental celluloid filmmaking, fully embraces video technology in this reworking of the 1929 Laurel and Hardy...

Little Stabs at Happiness is a collection of silent shorts Jacobs shot from the period of 1959-1963. Jaunty tunes (and a somber reflection) accompany...

Found Footage avantgarde film.

Part of a series of Eternalisms

A film in the Popeye Series by Ken Jacobs

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Film by Ken Jacobs. Exists as both 2D and 3D Version

Film portrait of Naomi Levine by Ken Jacobs

First created and presented as a Tzadik New Jewish Culture offering in 1993. First performed live as a Nervous System performance with Catherine...

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"