Ken Jacobs Movies

Mountain ranges lighter than air.

abstract short by Ken Jacobs

Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925) digitally embossed

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

"Waiting, waiting, for a bus to carry us a mile downtown. We often give up and walk. When we commit ourselves to waiting the bus usually appears with...

An Eternalism film.

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

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

An Eternalism film.

Still shots of a revolving door at New York City's Church Street Station Post Office are edited together to create a sense of movement, redoubled by...

Our daughter Nisi and son Aza happened to both be staying at our loft on Chambers Street when fundamentalist Islam struck. A friend observing the...

2023, 25:34, digital

Jacobs's 1st Window is a dazzling balletic breaking-up of the cinematic frame.

Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

1906 - Original cinematographer unknown. 1996 - New arrangement by Ken Jacobs. Shots shown as found in "A Trip Down Mount Tamalpais", the Paper Print...

'Blinking' 2D rendition of one of Ken Jacobs' Nervous System performances first presented in 1994.

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