Ken Jacobs Movies

Working with Virgil’s four-part poem “Georgics” and Antonio Vivaldi’s concertos “The Four Seasons” as models,...

Shot in Provincetown in the summer of '61 with the goal of funding a larger project, the film was never completed due to a violent argument between...

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

A wholesome moment: Jonas Mekas, MM Serra, Ken Jacobs, and Flo Jacobs take lavender from a stranger's bush.

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

Ken Jacobs applies three-dimensional digital animation to a century-old film by Edwin S. Porter.

An experimental feature made by rephotographing the 1905 Biograph short Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son.

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,...

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...

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

An anaglyph 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

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

Ken Jacobs applies his patented Eternalism process to 3D images he took of Jackson Pollock's 1954 splatter painting.

Anaglyph 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

Jacobs's 1st Window is a dazzling balletic breaking-up of the cinematic frame.

Existing home movie titled and placed into distribution by Jacobs without intervention.

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

The late, legendary experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage is the subject of this video portrait by his friends Ken Jacobs and Nisi Jacobs.The video...

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

An installment of Ken Jacobs series Amorous Interludes