Ken Jacobs Movies

An Eternalism film.

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...

Jacobs’s hypnotic “3-D” adaptation of New York 1911, a long-forgotten Swedish documentary restored by MoMA in 2017, is...

An Eternalism film.

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

An Eternalism film.

Ken Jacobs at a Chinese restaurant.

1906 - Original cinematographer unknown. 1996 - New arrangement by Ken Jacobs. Shots shown as found in "A Trip Down Mount Tamalpais", the Paper Print...

"One of the nice things about movies was you could keep them at a distance. Movies knew their place. We were dimensional, they were flat, so it was...

First two-cycle Eternalism. Interesting for the contrast of movements and depth configurations but also in indicating an end to the display and...

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

An Eternalism film.

A 2021 Jacobs Eternalism

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

One of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

A stroboscopic train ride along a jungle stream. Asian military men appear with their pith-helmets, keeping the ferns, trees, monkeys, natives in...

An Eternalism film.

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...

An Eternalism film.