Ken Jacobs Movies

A sly take on recent US foreign policy in the Middle East, 3D footage of the exit from NYFF’s premiere of The Social Network makes for...

First screened as part of Jacobs' "Nervous System" film performance, The Georgetown Loop is based on an archival film from 1903, which Jacobs pairs...

Silent film by Ken Jacobs featuring his son asleep at the table then being put to bed.

Avant-garde master Ken Jacobs' dizzying digital reinvention of a 1903 Edison "actuality" stretches and bends the one-minute film to an incredible,...

3D Eternalism by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Existing home movie titled and placed into distribution by Jacobs without intervention.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

No description from the artist.

"Joys…began on the corner of Broadway and Spring but it was the next night waiting on Bleecker that it was understood a movie of sorts was...

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...

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

Assisted by Nisi Ariana, 24 minutes

A 2023 Ken Jacobs Eternalism

An Eternalism film.

"One that creates a macabre dance by animating his own drawings." - Steve Anker

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