Ken Jacobs Movies

1969
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
6.21969HD
An experimental feature made by rephotographing the 1905 Biograph short Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son.
1956
Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice
Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice
01956HD
Short film with Jack Smith as the mysterious leader of an even-more-mysterious cult, garbed in pseudo-papal regalia and adorned with jewelry and...
2008
Return to the Scene of the Crime
Return to the Scene of the Crime
02008HD
This is how the film begins, duck-on-a-leash to Little Bo Peep to the revealing of the too-busy full stage-set. Each gets their close-up and the many...
1961
The Death of P'town
The Death of P'town
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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...
2003
Keeping an Eye on Stan
Keeping an Eye on Stan
02003HD
The late, legendary experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage is the subject of this video portrait by his friends Ken Jacobs and Nisi Jacobs.The video...
2008
The Scenic Route
The Scenic Route
02008HD
"One of the nice things about movies was you could keep them at a distance. Movies knew their place. We were dimensional, they were flat, so it was...
2008
Anaglyph Tom (Tom with Puffy Cheeks)
Anaglyph Tom (Tom with Puffy Cheeks)
5.52008HD
Here Jacobs revisits the original 1905 source material of his celebrated 1969 structuralist film, Tom Tom the Piper's Son. In his earlier film, a...
2009
Berkeley To San Francisco
Berkeley To San Francisco
02009HD
Freeview 3D film by Ken Jacobs
2016
Molten Landscape
Molten Landscape
02016HD
3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs
1963
Little Stabs at Happiness
Little Stabs at Happiness
5.81963HD
Little Stabs at Happiness is a collection of silent shorts Jacobs shot from the period of 1959-1963. Jaunty tunes (and a somber reflection) accompany...
1955
Orchard Street
Orchard Street
6.81955HD
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.
1973
Horizons
Horizons
8.51973HD
Working with Virgil’s four-part poem “Georgics” and Antonio Vivaldi’s concertos “The Four Seasons” as models,...
2021
In Front of Anthology
In Front of Anthology
02021HD
2021, 1 minute 58 seconds, digital.
1970
Depth for One Eye or Two
Depth for One Eye or Two
01970HD
An eternalism.
2019
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
02019HD
"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs
2022
America Lets Her Hair Down 1905
America Lets Her Hair Down 1905
02022HD
Co-made with Nisi Ariana
2002
A Tom Tom Chaser
A Tom Tom Chaser
02002HD
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...
2020
Movie That Invites Pausing
Movie That Invites Pausing
02020HD
"Influenced by avant-garde artist-refugees from Europe, non-representational art dominated the art market after WW2 [...] Viewers offered open minds,...
2023
Ken Jacobs - from Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern Art
Ken Jacobs - from Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern Art
02023HD
One of the most extraordinary personalities in the history of moving images, native New Yorker Ken Jacobs, and his wife and long-time creative...
2017
Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl
Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl
02017HD
Description by Ken Jacobs: Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl is the fourth in a series of shorts (Popeye Sees 3D; Pappy Sees 3D, Too; Sweepea’s...