Ken Jacobs Movies

An Eternalism film.

Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925) digitally embossed

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

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

Berlin documented by the US after WW2, recorded again in 1986 by Flo and Ken feigning innocence when passing by elevated train between Capitalist...

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

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

“The film said something necessary at the time: the numinous is everywhere, even upstate Rust Belt Binghamton. The light was perfect, students...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Ken Jacobs applies three-dimensional digital animation to a century-old film by Edwin S. Porter.

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

"2013. USA. Directed by Ken Jacobs. With technical assistance by Nisi Jacobs. Part two of four. “Joys…began on the corner of Broadway...

Abstract short in Jacob's current 3D style.

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

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...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Mountain ranges lighter than air.

Ken Jacobs writes: "The first two sections were shot around Jack's loft on Reade Street on two 100' 16 mm rolls. Sunday morning, following Saturday's...

This is how the film begins, duck-on-a-leash to Little Bo Peep to the revealing of the too-busy full stage-set. Each gets their close-up and the many...