Ken Jacobs Movies

Co-made with Nisi Ariana

An Eternalism film.

3D Eternalism film 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...

Digitally remixed elements from Ken Jacobs' 1960s film The Sky Socialist

Each new year Flo and I join the young and many-languaged crowd walking to the top of Brooklyn Bridge ostensibly for the fireworks. Fact is the...

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

An eternalism film.

40 minute 3D work.

An Eternalism film.

A stereograph of an ocean wave breaking is suspended in time as it reshapes in time and in depth. 3-D for both two eyed and single-eyed viewers.

2021, 1 minute 58 seconds, digital.

An Eternalism film.

Description by Ken Jacobs: Get Up and Go is a glimpse given dimension. No day is complete without a visit to Chinatown and on this day my movie...

One of the most extraordinary personalities in the history of moving images, native New Yorker Ken Jacobs, and his wife and long-time creative...

Filmed by Stella Weiss and family, chance-assembled from uncut 100-foot film-rolls. Sound precedes and follows silent image (40 minutes of image plus...

2022, 12:43, digital. Drawing by Victor Tomofeev, "A Skater's City"

Ken Jacobs applying a strobing effect to NYC trees.

Ken Jacobs at a Chinese restaurant.

An Eternalism film.