Ken Jacobs Movies

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

A 3-D vacation album, The Day Was a Scorcher pictures what Jacobs describes as "movie-star Flo, Nisi the thoughtful young girl, and Aza old enough to...

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

"2013. USA. Directed by Ken Jacobs. With technical assistance by Nisi Jacobs. Part two of four. “Joys…began on the corner of Broadway...

Anaglyph 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

Part of a series of Eternalisms

Film portrait of Naomi Levine by Ken Jacobs

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.

First two-cycle Eternalism. Interesting for the contrast of movements and depth configurations but also in indicating an end to the display and...

A reworking of 10 seconds from Entrée d`une noce à l`église (Entrance of a wedding at the church), the 1896 Lumiere brothers...

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

Part of a series of Eternalisms

An Eternalism film.

Part of a series of Eternalisms

Shot in Provincetown in the summer of '61 with the goal of funding a larger project, the film was never completed due to a violent argument between...

“‘FAIR AND WHITE’ is the name of a line of beauty parlors in Paris largely catering to an African-French clientele. No-one...

A multi-part series of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

This event was part of Arika’s Kill Your Timid Notion festival in 2007 at Dundee Contemporary Arts.

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...

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