Ken Jacobs Movies

1985
Perfect Film
Perfect Film
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Directed by Ken Jacobs, 1985. In Jacobs' own words: "I wish more stuff was available in its raw state, as primary source material for anyone to...
2026
A Date with Shirley
A Date with Shirley
02026HD
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...
2007
Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World
Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World
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Avant-garde master Ken Jacobs' dizzying digital reinvention of a 1903 Edison "actuality" stretches and bends the one-minute film to an incredible,...
1975
Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture
Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture
01975HD
In the backyard with the inimitable Jerry Sims. Shot in 8mm in 1975, edited and transferred to 16mm in 1987.
2007
New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903
New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903
62007HD
First created and presented as a Tzadik New Jewish Culture offering in 1993. First performed live as a Nervous System performance with Catherine...
2023
Manhattan is an Island
Manhattan is an Island
02023HD
One last ferry ride with the Jacobs family.
2019
Details of Pollock's White Light
Details of Pollock's White Light
02019HD
Ken Jacobs applies his patented Eternalism process to 3D images he took of Jackson Pollock's 1954 splatter painting.
2021
Aspiring To Music
Aspiring To Music
02021HD
abstract short by Ken Jacobs
1986
The Alps and The Jews
The Alps and The Jews
01986HD
An unfinished 3D film using the Pulfrich filter. "We travel by train through the mountains of central and northern Italy, 3-D country; the Alps,...
2015
Batchellor’s Dog and Beach
Batchellor’s Dog and Beach
02015HD
Anaglyph 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.
2005
Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye Molly
Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye Molly
02005HD
Ken Jacobs, the erstwhile master of experimental celluloid filmmaking, fully embraces video technology in this reworking of the 1929 Laurel and Hardy...
2015
Zazie Learns About Money
Zazie Learns About Money
02015HD
Film by Ken Jacobs. Exists as both 2D and 3D Version
2016
Ken Jacobs / Robert Poss @The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
Ken Jacobs / Robert Poss @The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
02016HD
"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"
2017
Capitalism Defeats Life on Earth, Cab in Rain
Capitalism Defeats Life on Earth, Cab in Rain
02017HD
One of Ken Jacobs' eternalism films that explores themes of environmental destruction and capitalist greed through a 3D, suspended-time, stereoscopic...
1991
Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896
Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896
71991HD
Found Footage avantgarde film.
2007
Popeye Sees 3-D, TOO
Popeye Sees 3-D, TOO
02007HD
A film in the Popeye Series by Ken Jacobs
1999
New York Street Trolleys 1900
New York Street Trolleys 1900
01999HD
In this unique document, Jacobs demonstrates one of his live, multi-projection "Nervous System" film performances in real time. (The Nervous System...
2005
Let There Be Whistle Blowers
Let There Be Whistle Blowers
02005HD
A train passes though a tunnel and hurtles on to a station. Time and space are toyed with, things enter an impossible state of ongoing movement while...
2006
The Surging Sea of Humanity
The Surging Sea of Humanity
02006HD
Stereograph of the crowd at the opening of the US Centennial Exposition of 1893. It turns into a movie. Into an enormous rugged and craggy 3-D...
2010
Lavender
Lavender
02010HD
A wholesome moment: Jonas Mekas, MM Serra, Ken Jacobs, and Flo Jacobs take lavender from a stranger's bush.