Ken Jacobs Movies

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

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...

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...

Abstract avantgarde film.

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...

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

"The editing procedure was to count the number of shots and start the film off with the numerically middle shot and then, after that, the shot that...

1906 - Original cinematographer unknown. 1996 - New arrangement by Ken Jacobs. Shots shown as found in "A Trip Down Mount Tamalpais", the Paper Print...

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...

A short by Ken Jacobs. Taormina, Sicily; Mt. Etna erupting nearby.

Jacobs applies his exacting digital techniques to footage of his New York City working and living space.

This work is derived from one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use neither film...

A train passes though a tunnel and hurtles on to a station. Time and space are toyed with, things enter an impossible state of ongoing movement while...

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

First screened as part of Jacobs' "Nervous System" film performance, The Georgetown Loop is based on an archival film from 1903, which Jacobs pairs...

A digital animation of a Victorian stereoscopic photograph of a 19th-century factory floor, crowded with machinery and child workers. Filmmaker Ken...

A story told by director Ken Jacobs but without conventional storyline. Using a modified magic lantern, an early type of image projector developed in...

A series of video letters between José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas.

An experimental feature made by rephotographing the 1905 Biograph short Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son.

An examination of the history of the U.S. through archival footage and contrasting views of society, incorporating audiovisual material ranging from...