Ken Jacobs Movies

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

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

Ken Jacobs, the erstwhile master of experimental celluloid filmmaking, fully embraces video technology in this reworking of the 1929 Laurel and Hardy...

Abstract short in Jacob's current 3D style.

In 1968, Noren finished Huge Pupils, a gorgeous, sensuous, sexually outrageous visual study of his daily life, and part I of an ongoing series he...

Little Stabs at Happiness is a collection of silent shorts Jacobs shot from the period of 1959-1963. Jaunty tunes (and a somber reflection) accompany...

Shot in 1959, Scotch Tape is Jack Smith's first film -- a joyous, three-minute romp, in color, using Peter Duchin's rhumba "Carinhoso" for its...

A 2023 Ken Jacobs Eternalism

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

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

Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

2023, 25:34, digital

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

An Eternalism film.

One of Ken Jacobs' Amorous Interludes

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

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...