Ken Jacobs Movies

Ken Jacobs' black and white abstract short from 2019, in five parts.

3D film by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

A still image of a palm-lined wooden walkway is edited together with mirror-images, close-ups, upside-down renderings, and smaller, framed versions...

3D Polaroid *Note: Must be viewed on 3D monitor with polaroid glasses Duration: 6'24 Year: 2015 Sound

In celebration of his 80th birthday, here is: THE ETERNAL COURTSHIP (an ipad short) For Ken and Flo Jacobs, with love and affection from all of us...

This work is a demonstration of one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use...

Jacobs's 1st Window is a dazzling balletic breaking-up of the cinematic frame.

A study in lunging waves, in 3D.

An Eternalism film.

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

A 2021 Jacobs Eternalism

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

2023, 25:34, digital

Experimental short film. Silent.

Jacobs documents a New York street vendor, taking a short interaction between the vendor and a customer and protracting it into a strobing,...

An homage to Op-Art, Brain Operations was inspired by an optical illusion produced by checkered tiles on the artist's bathroom floor. "When editing...

“The film said something necessary at the time: the numinous is everywhere, even upstate Rust Belt Binghamton. The light was perfect, students...

An Eternalism film.