Ken Jacobs Movies

An Eternalism film.

This is how the film begins, duck-on-a-leash to Little Bo Peep to the revealing of the too-busy full stage-set. Each gets their close-up and the many...

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

An installment of Ken Jacobs series Amorous Interludes

An Eternalism film.

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...

The Nervous Magic Lantern is a projection device I came up with in the year 2000. With assistance from wife Flo (Florence) we have been performing...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

"2013. USA. Directed by Ken Jacobs. With technical assistance by Nisi Jacobs. Part two of four. “Joys…began on the corner of Broadway...

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...

Spasm (2023, 13:41, digital)

Ken Jacobs’s most elusive and mysterious film is at once an allegory of movie-making, a demonstration of 8mm versatility, and a celebration of...

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...

An Eternalism film.

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

Black and white evokes nostalgia for The Great Depression. Things were so cheap, including lives. We see daredevils (desperate people) compete for...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.