Ken Jacobs Movies

Made in response to the death of his friends Bob Fleischner and Jack Smith, who died within one week of each other in 1989, this feature includes...

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

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

Spasm (2023, 13:41, digital)

3D eternalism by Ken Jacobs

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

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...

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 wholesome moment: Jonas Mekas, MM Serra, Ken Jacobs, and Flo Jacobs take lavender from a stranger's bush.

abstract short by Ken Jacobs

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

Ken Jacobs short film

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Obvious as the facts may be, (and available on the web; tap in the expression Reichstag 9/11), we are all wonderfully free to “make up our own...

The diamond patterns in the wire fencing for construction on his street inspired Ken Jacobs’s latest astonishing 3-D extravaganza.

Description by Ken Jacobs: Along the Elevated is an expanse of city architecture in delicious depth (depth is not only what things exist in, its ins...

Part of his “Nervous System” performances, the artist’s skills as a projectionist were highlighted when he invented this specially...

Three identical prints of a single 100 foot fixed-camera take are shown from beginning to end-roll light-flare, with a few feet of blackness...