Ken Jacobs Movies

An anaglyph 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

Film portrait of Naomi Levine by Ken Jacobs

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

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

Freeview 3D film by Ken Jacobs

Abstract short in Jacob's current 3D style.

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

“‘FAIR AND WHITE’ is the name of a line of beauty parlors in Paris largely catering to an African-French clientele. No-one...

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...

"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...

An eternalism film.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

One last ferry ride with the Jacobs family.

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

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

An Eternalism film.

Dir. Ken Jacobs. 2025, 48 mins. U.S. Digital. This colorful and cubist record of a Chinatown haircut is the final long-form work by the great...

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

'Blinking' 2D rendition of one of Ken Jacobs' Nervous System performances first presented in 1994.