Ken Jacobs Movies

  • 2023
    Tourists of the Familiar 15

    Tourists of the Familiar 15

    Tourists of the Familiar 15

    02023HD

    Part of a series of Eternalisms

    Tourists of the Familiar 15
  • 2026
    A Date with Shirley

    A Date with Shirley

    A Date with Shirley

    02026HD

    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...

    A Date with Shirley
  • 2003
    Nervous Ken

    Nervous Ken

    Nervous Ken

    02003HD

    In NERVOUS KEN, experimental film legend Ken Jacobs is "interviewed" by my urbane 12-year old M.C., Emma Bernstein. Envisioning an exploration of the...

    Nervous Ken
  • 2022
    America Lets Her Hair Down 1905

    America Lets Her Hair Down 1905

    America Lets Her Hair Down 1905

    02022HD

    Co-made with Nisi Ariana

    America Lets Her Hair Down 1905
  • 1955
    Orchard Street

    Orchard Street

    Orchard Street

    6.81955HD

    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.

    Orchard Street
  • 1963
    Little Stabs at Happiness

    Little Stabs at Happiness

    Little Stabs at Happiness

    5.81963HD

    Little Stabs at Happiness is a collection of silent shorts Jacobs shot from the period of 1959-1963. Jaunty tunes (and a somber reflection) accompany...

    Little Stabs at Happiness
  • 2016
    I'm Telling You

    I'm Telling You

    I'm Telling You

    02016HD

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

    I'm Telling You
  • 2020
    PAINTED POSTER

    PAINTED POSTER

    PAINTED POSTER

    02020HD

    An Eternalism film.

    PAINTED POSTER
  • 2005
    Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye Molly

    Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye Molly

    Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye Molly

    02005HD

    Ken Jacobs, the erstwhile master of experimental celluloid filmmaking, fully embraces video technology in this reworking of the 1929 Laurel and Hardy...

    Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye Molly
  • 2010
    Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two

    Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two

    Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two

    02010HD

    Sequel to Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway

    Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two
  • 2021
    In Front of Anthology

    In Front of Anthology

    In Front of Anthology

    02021HD

    2021, 1 minute 58 seconds, digital.

    In Front of Anthology
  • 2011
    The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street

    The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street

    The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street

    02011HD

    Early 20th-century street vendors push their carts loaded with vegetables. It is time for them to go. Little by little, the viewer discovers...

    The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street
  • 2002
    A Tom Tom Chaser

    A Tom Tom Chaser

    A Tom Tom Chaser

    02002HD

    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...

    A Tom Tom Chaser
  • 2008
    Return to the Scene of the Crime

    Return to the Scene of the Crime

    Return to the Scene of the Crime

    02008HD

    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...

    Return to the Scene of the Crime
  • 2013
    A Primer in Sky Socialism

    A Primer in Sky Socialism

    A Primer in Sky Socialism

    02013HD

    Each new year Flo and I join the young and many-languaged crowd walking to the top of Brooklyn Bridge ostensibly for the fireworks. Fact is the...

    A Primer in Sky Socialism
  • 2007
    Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World

    Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World

    Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World

    02007HD

    Originally presented as an installation in the exhibition Evolution 2007 at Lumen in Leeds, GIFT OF FIRE devotes fetishistic attention to what is...

    Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World
  • 2017
    Swee’pea’s Favorite Eternalisms

    Swee’pea’s Favorite Eternalisms

    Swee’pea’s Favorite Eternalisms

    02017HD

    3D Eternalism by Ken Jacobs

    Swee’pea’s Favorite Eternalisms
  • 1986
    The Alps and The Jews

    The Alps and The Jews

    The Alps and The Jews

    01986HD

    An unfinished 3D film using the Pulfrich filter. "We travel by train through the mountains of central and northern Italy, 3-D country; the Alps,...

    The Alps and The Jews
  • 2008
    Anaglyph Tom (Tom with Puffy Cheeks)

    Anaglyph Tom (Tom with Puffy Cheeks)

    Anaglyph Tom (Tom with Puffy Cheeks)

    5.52008HD

    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...

    Anaglyph Tom (Tom with Puffy Cheeks)
  • 2015
    Batchellor’s Dog and Beach

    Batchellor’s Dog and Beach

    Batchellor’s Dog and Beach

    02015HD

    Anaglyph 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

    Batchellor’s Dog and Beach