Ken Jacobs Movies

"The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my...

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

A man fondles objects, looks at himself in the mirror, poses in different clothes, smiles and makes faces at the camera while his voice on the...

An Eternailsm 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

The diamond patterns in the wire fencing for construction on his street inspired Ken Jacobs’s latest astonishing 3-D extravaganza.

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.

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

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

First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

Jacobs’s hypnotic “3-D” adaptation of New York 1911, a long-forgotten Swedish documentary restored by MoMA in 2017, is...

This work is derived from one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use neither film...

First screened as part of Jacobs' "Nervous System" film performance, The Georgetown Loop is based on an archival film from 1903, which Jacobs pairs...

World Premiere -- Museum of Moving Image 1/14/2017

Henry Hills’s Emma’s Dilemma reinvents the portrait for the age of digital reproduction. In a set of tour-de-force probes into the images...

Black and white evokes nostalgia for The Great Depression. Things were so cheap, including lives. We see daredevils (desperate people) compete for...

This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology’s voicemail system...

A film in the Popeye Series by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

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

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