Ken Jacobs Movies

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Experimental short silent film (black & white).

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

"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...

Assisted by Nisi Ariana, 24 minutes

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

Our daughter Nisi and son Aza happened to both be staying at our loft on Chambers Street when fundamentalist Islam struck. A friend observing the...

An Eternalism film.

A 2021 Jacobs Eternalism

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...

Dir. Ken Jacobs. 2025, 48 mins. U.S. Digital. This colorful and cubist record of a Chinatown haircut is the final long-form work by the great...

Co-made with Nisi Ariana

2022, assisted by Antoine Catala

In NERVOUS KEN, experimental film legend Ken Jacobs is "interviewed" by my urbane 12-year old M.C., Emma Bernstein. Envisioning an exploration of the...

An installment of Ken Jacobs series Amorous Interludes

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

2022, 12:43, digital. Drawing by Victor Tomofeev, "A Skater's City"

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

A multi-part series of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

An Eternalism film.