Movies

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...

"Hidden in a movie shot is an infinity of monsters. Pause and they show themselves (at their worst in 3D)." - Ken Jacobs

The moving camera shapes the screen image with great purposefulness, using the frame of a window as fulcrum upon which to wheel about the exterior...

A picturing of sound in 3D.

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

"Influenced by avant-garde artist-refugees from Europe, non-representational art dominated the art market after WW2 [...] Viewers offered open minds,...

Ken Jacobs short film

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

This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.

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...

The late, legendary experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage is the subject of this video portrait by his friends Ken Jacobs and Nisi Jacobs.The video...

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

Part of a series of Eternalisms

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...

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

Anaglyph 3D film by Ken Jacobs based on a 1974 shadow play performance.

An experimental feature made by rephotographing the 1905 Biograph short Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son.

Part of a series of Eternalisms

Co-made with Nisi Ariana

Foreman’s longtime friend Ken Jacobs situated himself in the audience of the legendary Ontological-Hysteric theater space at 491 Broadway to...