Ken Jacobs Movies

Short film with Jack Smith as the mysterious leader of an even-more-mysterious cult, garbed in pseudo-papal regalia and adorned with jewelry and...

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

Found Footage avantgarde film.

Obvious as the facts may be, (and available on the web; tap in the expression Reichstag 9/11), we are all wonderfully free to “make up our own...

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...

Part of his “Nervous System” performances, the artist’s skills as a projectionist were highlighted when he invented this specially...

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An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

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

"fails to distinguish art from history." An eternalism film by Ken Jacobs.

Made in response to the death of his friends Bob Fleischner and Jack Smith, who died within one week of each other in 1989, this feature includes...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

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

An Eternalism film.

Anaglyph 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

An eternalism film.