Ken Jacobs Movies

Short film by Ken Jacobs later included in his compilation The Whirled.

2021, 6:23, digital. Part of the Nervous Magic Lantern films.

"fails to distinguish art from history." An eternalism film by Ken Jacobs.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

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

Ken and Flo Jacobs walk from an MTA bus to their apartment in the icy rain. This is transformed by a 360° camera and digital effects into an...

Black and white evokes nostalgia for The Great Depression. Things were so cheap, including lives. We see daredevils (desperate people) compete for...

An anaglyph 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

A book of eternalisms, structured the same as the Tourists of the Familiar series, with an emphasis on water.

Keaton's One Week (1920) digitally embossed

An Eternalism film.

A 2021 Jacobs Eternalism

One of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

An Eternalism film.

Our daughter Nisi and son Aza happened to both be staying at our loft on Chambers Street when fundamentalist Islam struck. A friend observing the...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Ken Jacobs writes: "The first two sections were shot around Jack's loft on Reade Street on two 100' 16 mm rolls. Sunday morning, following Saturday's...