Ken Jacobs Movies

Jack Smith descends a fire escape in a makeshift "Arabian" costume and improvises increasingly frenetic choreography.

An unfinished 3D film using the Pulfrich filter. "We travel by train through the mountains of central and northern Italy, 3-D country; the Alps,...

An Eternalism film.

Jacobs documents the work of artist Ronald Gonzalez in his Binghamton, NY home and studio space. Producing more of an abstract portrait than a...

An Eternalism film.

Experimental short film directed by Ken Jacobs with music by diNMachine.

Here Jacobs revisits the original 1905 source material of his celebrated 1969 structuralist film, Tom Tom the Piper's Son. In his earlier film, a...

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

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

"Details of paintings by Joan Mitchell undergo Eternalizing. The process introduces emphatic flicker that helps create illusions of depth, even for a...

An Eternalism film.

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

An Eternalism film.

Ken Jacobs at a Chinese restaurant.

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...

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

In this unique document, Jacobs demonstrates one of his live, multi-projection "Nervous System" film performances in real time. (The Nervous System...

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...

A short by Ken Jacobs. Taormina, Sicily; Mt. Etna erupting nearby.