Ken Jacobs Movies

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...

"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...

"Influenced by avant-garde artist-refugees from Europe, non-representational art dominated the art market after WW2 [...] Viewers offered open minds,...

Description by Ken Jacobs: Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl is the fourth in a series of shorts (Popeye Sees 3D; Pappy Sees 3D, Too; Sweepea’s...

An Eternalism film.

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.

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...

Silent film by Ken Jacobs featuring his son asleep at the table then being put to bed.

A Tom Tom Chaser is Jacobs' 2002 poetic riff on the transformation of his classic film Tom Tom the Piper's Son from chemical to electronic form...

This is how the film begins, duck-on-a-leash to Little Bo Peep to the revealing of the too-busy full stage-set. Each gets their close-up and the many...

One last ferry ride with the Jacobs family.

Freeview 3D film by Ken Jacobs

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 film.

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

2021, 1 minute 58 seconds, digital.

3D Eternalism by Ken Jacobs

Assisted by Nisi Ariana, 24 minutes

Features two old men talking on the Lower East Side; one loud mouth, the other bizarrely amiable, in 3D.

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