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...

This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology’s voicemail system...

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...

Avant-garde master Ken Jacobs' dizzying digital reinvention of a 1903 Edison "actuality" stretches and bends the one-minute film to an incredible,...

A man fondles objects, looks at himself in the mirror, poses in different clothes, smiles and makes faces at the camera while his voice on the...

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...

World Premiere -- Museum of Moving Image 1/14/2017

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

In the backyard with the inimitable Jerry Sims. Shot in 8mm in 1975, edited and transferred to 16mm in 1987.

"Flat image (of snowbound suburban housing tract) blossoms into 3D only when viewer places Eye Opener before the right eye. (Keeping both eyes open,...

The documentary’s starting point is the discovery and restoration of a rare and unknown photography reel reproduced from a mutoscope film, made...

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.

The diamond patterns in the wire fencing for construction on his street inspired Ken Jacobs’s latest astonishing 3-D extravaganza.

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

"The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my...

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

One of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

An Eternalism film.

An installment of Ken Jacobs series Amorous Interludes

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...