Ken Jacobs Movies

Jacobs documents the work of artist Ronald Gonzalez in his Binghamton, NY home and studio space. Producing more of an abstract portrait than a...

Using the same stereoscopic animation technique of Jacobs' recent works Capitalism: Slavery (2006) and Nymph (2007), which he calls "a vigorous 3-D...

One of Ken Jacobs' Amorous Interludes

“The film said something necessary at the time: the numinous is everywhere, even upstate Rust Belt Binghamton. The light was perfect, students...

A film by Ken Jacobs made in 8mm

'Blinking' 2D rendition of one of Ken Jacobs' Nervous System performances first presented in 1994.

Short film by Ken Jacobs later included in his compilation The Whirled.

A study in lunging waves, in 3D.

"Waiting, waiting, for a bus to carry us a mile downtown. We often give up and walk. When we commit ourselves to waiting the bus usually appears with...

Jacobs documents a New York street vendor, taking a short interaction between the vendor and a customer and protracting it into a strobing,...

Description by Ken Jacobs: A Spin Through Night City gets many visual elements spinning. Only daughter Nisi working at our computer knows how...

Ken Jacobs writes: "The first two sections were shot around Jack's loft on Reade Street on two 100' 16 mm rolls. Sunday morning, following Saturday's...

Freeview 3D film by Ken Jacobs

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...

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

A sly take on recent US foreign policy in the Middle East, 3D footage of the exit from NYFF’s premiere of The Social Network makes for...

Early 20th-century street vendors push their carts loaded with vegetables. It is time for them to go. Little by little, the viewer discovers...

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...

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...

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...