Ken Jacobs Movies

Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh,...

Made in response to the death of his friends Bob Fleischner and Jack Smith, who died within one week of each other in 1989, this feature includes...

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

An Eternalism film.

In Capitalism: Slavery, Jacobs uses a Victorian stereograph (a double-photograph) of slaves picking cotton under the watchful eye of a white overseer...

Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up...

1906 - Original cinematographer unknown. 1996 - New arrangement by Ken Jacobs. Shots shown as found in "A Trip Down Mount Tamalpais", the Paper Print...

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

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...

Description by Ken Jacobs: Along the Elevated is an expanse of city architecture in delicious depth (depth is not only what things exist in, its ins...

MM Serra and Jonas Mekas sign a paper in 3D.

3D film by Ken Jacobs

The documentary’s starting point is the discovery and restoration of a rare and unknown photography reel reproduced from a mutoscope film, made...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

abstract short by Ken Jacobs

A 2021 Jacobs Eternalism

Ken Jacobs, the erstwhile master of experimental celluloid filmmaking, fully embraces video technology in this reworking of the 1929 Laurel and Hardy...

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

An examination of the history of the U.S. through archival footage and contrasting views of society, incorporating audiovisual material ranging from...

A film by Ken Jacobs made in 8mm