Ken Jacobs Movies

“‘FAIR AND WHITE’ is the name of a line of beauty parlors in Paris largely catering to an African-French clientele. No-one...

Mountain ranges lighter than air.

An Eternalism film.

One of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

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...

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

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...

3D eternalism by Ken Jacobs

Existing home movie titled and placed into distribution by Jacobs without intervention.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

An Eternalism film.

Description by Ken Jacobs: A Spin Through Night City gets many visual elements spinning. Only daughter Nisi working at our computer knows how...

A stroboscopic train ride along a jungle stream. Asian military men appear with their pith-helmets, keeping the ferns, trees, monkeys, natives in...

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...

This work is a demonstration of one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use...

A 2023 Ken Jacobs Eternalism

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Jacobs applies his exacting digital techniques to footage of his New York City working and living space.