Ken Jacobs • United States • 2002 • Jacobs' poetic riff on the transformation of The Piper's Son.

A Tom Tom Chaser is Jacobs’s poetic riff on the transformation of his classic film Tom Tom the Piper's Son from chemical to digital form during the telecine process.

Ken Jacobs • United States • 1963

An impressionistic portrait of Jack Smith.

In Jacobs’s words—“Blonde Cobra is an erratic narrative—no, not really a narrative, it's only stretched out in time for convenience of delivery. It's a look in on an exploding life, on a man of imagination suffering p...

Ken Jacobs • United States • 2006 • One of Jacobs' mind-expanding 3D projects.

Ken Jacobs started experimenting with found footage, and went on to embrace digital tools—using stroboscopic effects to turn silent shorts and Victorian stereoscopic photographs into mind-expanding 3D investigations i...

Ken Jacobs • United States • 2006 • In Jacobs' words: "Silent, mournful, brief."

Ken Jacobs started experimenting with found footage, and went on to embrace digital tools—using stroboscopic effects to turn silent shorts and Victorian stereoscopic photographs into mind-expanding 3D investigations...

Ken Jacobs • United States • 2019

A recent entry in Jacobs's stereoscopic project.

Ken Jacobs • United States • 1963 • Jacobs' poetic riff on the transformation of The Piper's Son.

In Jacob’s words—“Material was cut in as it came out of the camera, embarrassing moments intact. 100' rolls timed well with music on old 78's. I was interested in immediacy, a sense of ease, and a...

Ken Jacobs • United States • 2020 • Per Jacobs, "The heady adventure of engagement with ambiguity."

Ken Jacobs continues to push the boundaries of the art form, as evidenced by the hypnotically abstract Movie that Invites Pausing.

Ken Jacobs • United States • 1955

Ken Jacobs’s early films use New York City as a poetic landscape, as evidenced in Orchard Street.

Ken Jacobs • United States • 2007 • Not featured on Kino Lorber's Blu-ray set.

In Jacobs’s words—“Razzle Dazzle is an early Edison shot cut off at its head and tail and along its four sides from the continuity of events like any camera-shot from a bygone day; no, like any camera-shot, immediatel...

Ken Jacobs • United States • 2016

One of Ken Jacobs's most bracing and controversial works: a reframing of 9/11 marked by the director's belief in government conspiracy.

Ken Jacobs • United States • 2008 • Ken Jacobs' attempt to "seize" Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son.

Ken Jacobs revisits Billy Bitzer’s Tom, Tom, The Piper’s Son—which he first disassembled in his 1969 film of the same name—to once again explore the vagaries of the visual and its endless capacity for m...

Ken Jacobs • United States • 2011 • An investigation of the space between two and three dimensions.

In Jacobs’s words, “The film could have well been called Kicking and Screaming but that only describes me in the process of making it, questioning its taste. Once the message kicked in it overrod...

Ken Jacobs • United States • 1996 • Per Jacobs, "The first landscape film deserving of an X-rating."

Jacobs manipulates The Georgetown Loop (Colorado), archival footage shot in 1903 of a train that passes by the town of Georgetown, Colorado, near the Rocky Mountains. The mountain vista is mirro...

Ken Jacobs • United States • 1968 • Ken Jacobs' story of impossible love.

Ken Jacobs's most elusive and mysterious film is at once an allegory of movie-making, a demonstration of 8mm versatility, and a celebration of a now-vanished neighborhood beneath the Brooklyn Bridge.

Ken Jacobs • United States • 2019

Additional footage from Jacobs’s elusive film The Sky Socialist.

Ken Jacobs • United States • 1961

An experimental reworking of four short films—Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice (1956), Little Cobra Dance (1956), Hunch Your Back (1963), and Death of P'Town (1961).

Ken Jacobs • United States • 2019 • Jacobs's interpretation of Depression-era footage.

Desperate daredevils compete for money prizes and a baby prepares for World War II in Jacobs's reworking of Depression-era footage. Fire, crashes, explosions, and rooftop escapades match a haunting score.

Ken Jacobs • United States • 2019 • A radical spin on a long-gone time.

Ken Jacobs uses his 3-D technique to reanimate the century-old documentary New York 1911— a radical spin on a long-gone time.

Ken Jacobs • United States • 1969 • One of Ken Jacobs' great experiments in photography and editing.

Ken Jacobs started experimenting with found footage, expanding a five-minute fragment of Billy Bitzer’s Tom, Tom, The Piper’s Son (1905) to feature length. In Jacobs’s words—“Ghosts! Cine-recor...

Ken Jacobs • United States • 1964 • Ken Jacobs' experiment with lenses and screens.

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 scene. The zoom lens rips, pulling depth planes apart.