Ken Jacobs Movies
- 1969
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son61969HD
An experimental feature made by rephotographing the 1905 Biograph short Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son.
- 1962
Scotch Tape
Scotch Tape4.21962HD
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...
- 1985
Home Movies 1971-81
Home Movies 1971-8101985HD
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
- 2011
Seeking the Monkey King
Seeking the Monkey King4.82011HD
Suggestion: Please see 'Another Occupation' before 'Seeking the Monkey King'. Contains flicker like many of my works; avoid if you have epilepsy or...
- 2016
Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival02016HD
"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"
- 2020
Transparent Apartments
Transparent Apartments02020HD
An Eternalism film.
- 1963
Little Stabs at Happiness
Little Stabs at Happiness5.61963HD
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...
- 2020
Broadway Buildings II
Broadway Buildings II02020HD
An Eternalism film.
- 2009
The Signing
The Signing02009HD
MM Serra and Jonas Mekas sign a paper in 3D.
- 2007
New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903
New York Ghetto Fishmarket 190362007HD
First created and presented as a Tzadik New Jewish Culture offering in 1993. First performed live as a Nervous System performance with Catherine...
- 2019
Details of Pollock's White Light
Details of Pollock's White Light02019HD
Ken Jacobs applies his patented Eternalism process to 3D images he took of Jackson Pollock's 1954 splatter painting.
- 2012
Emma's Dilemma
Emma's Dilemma12012HD
Henry Hills’s Emma’s Dilemma reinvents the portrait for the age of digital reproduction. In a set of tour-de-force probes into the images...
- 1975
Urban Peasants
Urban Peasants01975HD
Filmed by Stella Weiss and family, chance-assembled from uncut 100-foot film-rolls. Sound precedes and follows silent image (40 minutes of image plus...
- 2005
Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise
Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise5.92005HD
A story told by director Ken Jacobs but without conventional storyline. Using a modified magic lantern, an early type of image projector developed in...
- 2020
Municipal Building Passage
Municipal Building Passage02020HD
An Eternalism film.
- 2005
Let There Be Whistle Blowers
Let There Be Whistle Blowers02005HD
A train passes though a tunnel and hurtles on to a station. Time and space are toyed with, things enter an impossible state of ongoing movement while...
- 2016
Mosco Street 2
Mosco Street 202016HD
Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.
- 2019
Once Upon a Planet
Once Upon a Planet02019HD
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...
- 2011
Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin6.12011HD
A series of video letters between José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas.
- 2011
The Roses
The Roses02011HD
The Roses is a meditation on art, aging, and the nature of listening, as well a conversation between generations and between artists. The anaglyph...