Ken Jacobs Movies

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

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...

Ken Jacobs short film eventually incorporated into The Sky Socialist.

"The editing procedure was to count the number of shots and start the film off with the numerically middle shot and then, after that, the shot that...

A 3-D vacation album, The Day Was a Scorcher pictures what Jacobs describes as "movie-star Flo, Nisi the thoughtful young girl, and Aza old enough to...

An eternalism.

Description by Ken Jacobs: A Spin Through Night City gets many visual elements spinning. Only daughter Nisi working at our computer knows how...

Berlin documented by the US after WW2, recorded again in 1986 by Flo and Ken feigning innocence when passing by elevated train between Capitalist...

Digitally remixed elements from Ken Jacobs' 1960s film The Sky Socialist

A film in the Popeye Series by Ken Jacobs

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Part of a series of Eternalisms

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.

Experimental short film.

1906 - Original cinematographer unknown. 1996 - New arrangement by Ken Jacobs. Shots shown as found in "A Trip Down Mount Tamalpais", the Paper Print...

An Eternalism film.

40 minute 3D work.

MM Serra and Jonas Mekas sign a paper in 3D.

No description from the artist

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