Ken Jacobs Movies

An Eternalism film.

Ken and Flo Jacobs walk from an MTA bus to their apartment in the icy rain. This is transformed by a 360° camera and digital effects into an...

Part of a series of Eternalisms

An Eternalism film.

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

Still shots of a revolving door at New York City's Church Street Station Post Office are edited together to create a sense of movement, redoubled by...

Spasm (2023, 13:41, digital)

An Eternalism film.

Abstract avantgarde film.

Ken Jacobs applies three-dimensional digital animation to a century-old film by Edwin S. Porter.

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...

Music composition by Harrison Birtwistle, 1971 tape realized by Peter Zinovieff. Nervous Magic Lantern performance by Ken jacobs, 1990.

Co-made with Nisi Ariana

Co-made with Nisi Ariana

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Part of his “Nervous System” performances, the artist’s skills as a projectionist were highlighted when he invented this specially...

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

Single fixed-camera take looking from within darkened room, (camera within a camera) out through fire-escape door into vertical space between rears...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

"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...