Ken Jacobs Movies

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

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

An eternalism film.

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

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...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

World Premiere -- Museum of Moving Image 1/14/2017

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 eternalism by Ken Jacobs

Avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs presents Buster Keaton's short silent comedy Cops (1922) as his own work by blacking-out approximately the top...

“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.

Ken Jacobs' seventh Book of Eternalisms.

Experimental short film.

The Roses is a meditation on art, aging, and the nature of listening, as well a conversation between generations and between artists. The anaglyph...

An eternalism film.

2023, 25:34, digital

An Eternalism film.

Premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on August 5, 2021.

Home movie by Ken Jacobs. Black and white and silent.