Ken Jacobs Movies

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Experimental short film.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Henry Hills’s Emma’s Dilemma reinvents the portrait for the age of digital reproduction. In a set of tour-de-force probes into the images...

A 2021 Jacobs Eternalism

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...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

MM Serra and Jonas Mekas sign a paper in 3D.

A wholesome moment: Jonas Mekas, MM Serra, Ken Jacobs, and Flo Jacobs take lavender from a stranger's bush.

Freeview 3D film by Ken Jacobs

No description from the artist.

Abstract short in Jacob's current 3D style.

Ken Jacobs short film eventually incorporated into The Sky Socialist.

In 1968, Noren finished Huge Pupils, a gorgeous, sensuous, sexually outrageous visual study of his daily life, and part I of an ongoing series he...

Description by Ken Jacobs: Get Up and Go is a glimpse given dimension. No day is complete without a visit to Chinatown and on this day my movie...

Shot in 1959, Scotch Tape is Jack Smith's first film -- a joyous, three-minute romp, in color, using Peter Duchin's rhumba "Carinhoso" for its...

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...

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

3D Eternalism by Ken Jacobs

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...