Ken Jacobs Movies

Experimental short silent film (black & white).

Experimental short film directed by Ken Jacobs with music by diNMachine.

Spasm (2023, 13:41, digital)

Features two old men talking on the Lower East Side; one loud mouth, the other bizarrely amiable, in 3D.

Stereograph of the crowd at the opening of the US Centennial Exposition of 1893. It turns into a movie. Into an enormous rugged and craggy 3-D...

Avant-garde master Ken Jacobs' dizzying digital reinvention of a 1903 Edison "actuality" stretches and bends the one-minute film to an incredible,...

A 2023 Ken Jacobs Eternalism

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.

"Waiting, waiting, for a bus to carry us a mile downtown. We often give up and walk. When we commit ourselves to waiting the bus usually appears with...

Silent film by Ken Jacobs featuring his son asleep at the table then being put to bed.

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An Eternalism film.

Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

A film by Ken Jacobs in his Amorous Interludes series

Ken Jacobs short film

Assisted by Nisi Ariana, 24 minutes

Ken Jacobs film on Rodney King and the LA Riots utilizing Pulfrich 3-D, in which a single dark filter is placed before one eye.

A sly take on recent US foreign policy in the Middle East, 3D footage of the exit from NYFF’s premiere of The Social Network makes for...