Ken Jacobs Movies

Jacobs documents a New York street vendor, taking a short interaction between the vendor and a customer and protracting it into a strobing,...

An eternalism.

Three identical prints of a single 100 foot fixed-camera take are shown from beginning to end-roll light-flare, with a few feet of blackness...

Ken Jacobs at a Chinese restaurant.

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

abstract short by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

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

An Eternalism film.

Spasm (2023, 13:41, digital)

Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

3D film by Ken Jacobs

In this short and beautiful piece, Jacobs creates a flicker effect by editing close-up footage of a stream together with sections of black, producing...

Music composition by Harrison Birtwistle, 1971 tape realized by Peter Zinovieff. Nervous Magic Lantern performance by Ken jacobs, 1990.

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

3D Polaroid *Note: Must be viewed on 3D monitor with polaroid glasses Duration: 6'24 Year: 2015 Sound

A 3D film by Ken Jacobs

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

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs