Ken Jacobs Movies

A young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An anthology of one-minute films created by 51 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was...

An Eternalism film.

A film by Ken Jacobs made in 8mm

A film by Ken Jacobs in his Amorous Interludes series

Using the same stereoscopic animation technique of Jacobs' recent works Capitalism: Slavery (2006) and Nymph (2007), which he calls "a vigorous 3-D...

Anaglyph 3D film by Ken Jacobs based on a 1974 shadow play performance.

This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology’s voicemail system...

This work is derived from one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use neither film...

Jacob's home movie portrait of Alfred Leslie and his family intercut with fragments of a Mickey Mouse cartoon.

Blankets for Indians blends a stereoscopic study of water spurting from New York’s City Hall fountain with an intimately detailed portrait of...

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

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

In NERVOUS KEN, experimental film legend Ken Jacobs is "interviewed" by my urbane 12-year old M.C., Emma Bernstein. Envisioning an exploration of the...

A 2021 Jacobs Eternalism

Sequel to Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway

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

Keaton's One Week (1920) digitally embossed