Ken Jacobs Movies

An Eternalism film.

Ken Jacobs at a Chinese restaurant.

Anaglyph 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

An Eternalism film.

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

Spasm (2023, 13:41, digital)

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...

A train passes though a tunnel and hurtles on to a station. Time and space are toyed with, things enter an impossible state of ongoing movement while...

Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

Using his trademark flicker method, Ken Jacobs pays homage to the oldest type of color film, Kodachrome (whose production was discontinued in 2009)...

An Eternalism film.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Features two old men talking on the Lower East Side; one loud mouth, the other bizarrely amiable, in 3D.

"fails to distinguish art from history." An eternalism film by Ken Jacobs.

A still image of a palm-lined wooden walkway is edited together with mirror-images, close-ups, upside-down renderings, and smaller, framed versions...

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...

Avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs presents Buster Keaton's short silent comedy Cops (1922) as his own work by blacking-out approximately the top...

2022, assisted by Antoine Catala

An Eternalism film.

Assisted by Nisi Ariana, 24 minutes