Ken Jacobs Movies

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...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

A celebration of Ken Jacobs' work at 80WSE.

2021, 1 minute 58 seconds, digital.

A picturing of sound in 3D.

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...

A Rainy Day in New York.

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

One of the most extraordinary personalities in the history of moving images, native New Yorker Ken Jacobs, and his wife and long-time creative...

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Ken Jacobs short film

Film portrait of Naomi Levine by Ken Jacobs

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

"3D is rather a slighting way to speak of deep space. I enjoyed AVATAR and HUGO, though not much else among the movies I’ve seen in illusionary...

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...

Part of a series of Eternalisms

An anaglyph 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

Ken Jacobs applies his patented Eternalism process to 3D images he took of Jackson Pollock's 1954 splatter painting.

An Eternalism film.

One last ferry ride with the Jacobs family.