Ken Jacobs Movies

Directed by Ken Jacobs, 1985. In Jacobs' own words: "I wish more stuff was available in its raw state, as primary source material for anyone to...

Home movie by Ken Jacobs. Black and white and silent.

First created and presented as a Tzadik New Jewish Culture offering in 1993. First performed live as a Nervous System performance with Catherine...

An Eternalism film.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

This event was part of Arika’s Kill Your Timid Notion festival in 2007 at Dundee Contemporary Arts.

An Eternalism film.

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

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

Single fixed-camera take looking from within darkened room, (camera within a camera) out through fire-escape door into vertical space between rears...

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

A wholesome moment: Jonas Mekas, MM Serra, Ken Jacobs, and Flo Jacobs take lavender from a stranger's bush.

An Eternalism film.

Jacobs’s hypnotic “3-D” adaptation of New York 1911, a long-forgotten Swedish documentary restored by MoMA in 2017, is...

Description by Ken Jacobs: Along the Elevated is an expanse of city architecture in delicious depth (depth is not only what things exist in, its ins...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Ken Jacobs' black and white abstract short from 2019, in five parts.

An Eternalism film.