Ken Jacobs Movies

A series of video letters between José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas.

First created and presented as a Tzadik New Jewish Culture offering in 1993. First performed live as a Nervous System performance with Catherine...

Part of a series of Eternalisms

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

A stereo-photo of an ocean wave slowly turns and churns. The hidden forces of Cinema conspire with an instant of history to produce actions that...

Existing home movie titled and placed into distribution by Jacobs without intervention.

Jack Smith descends a fire escape in a makeshift "Arabian" costume and improvises increasingly frenetic choreography.

An Eternalism film.

Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

Co-made with Nisi Ariana

Film by Ken Jacobs. Exists as both 2D and 3D Version

An homage to Op-Art, Brain Operations was inspired by an optical illusion produced by checkered tiles on the artist's bathroom floor. "When editing...

One of Ken Jacobs' Amorous Interludes

Fall into winter 1964, Urban Renewal forced us to move a few blocks to West of Broadway. Our Sky Socialist ‘set’ is still standing and...

A short by Ken Jacobs. Taormina, Sicily; Mt. Etna erupting nearby.

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

An Eternalism film.

An unfinished 8mm film from 1964

Studying painting with Hans Hofmann had sensitized me to depth phenomena, to strange readings of depth including the most unnatural: flat. In 1964, I...