Movies

An Eternalism film.

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

Co-made with Nisi Ariana

Early 20th-century street vendors push their carts loaded with vegetables. It is time for them to go. Little by little, the viewer discovers...

An anaglyph 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

Anaglyph 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

"Hidden in a movie shot is an infinity of monsters. Pause and they show themselves (at their worst in 3D)." - Ken Jacobs

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...

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Sequel to Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway

A Tom Tom Chaser is Jacobs' 2002 poetic riff on the transformation of his classic film Tom Tom the Piper's Son from chemical to electronic form...

In the backyard with the inimitable Jerry Sims. Shot in 8mm in 1975, edited and transferred to 16mm in 1987.

In this late work (made with Azazel Jacobs’s participation), Ken Jacobs returns to an earlier (and frequent) subject, the bric-a-brac-laden...

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

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

An Eternalism film.

Ken Jacobs’s most elusive and mysterious film is at once an allegory of movie-making, a demonstration of 8mm versatility, and a celebration of...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

An Eternalism film.

Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.