Movies

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

An experimental feature made by rephotographing the 1905 Biograph short Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son.

3D film by Ken Jacobs

The documentary’s starting point is the discovery and restoration of a rare and unknown photography reel reproduced from a mutoscope film, made...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

abstract short by Ken Jacobs

Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925) digitally embossed

An examination of the history of the U.S. through archival footage and contrasting views of society, incorporating audiovisual material ranging from...

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...

A film by Ken Jacobs made in 8mm

Part of a series of Eternalisms

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

World Premiere -- Museum of Moving Image 1/14/2017

An Eternalism film.

The late, legendary experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage is the subject of this video portrait by his friends Ken Jacobs and Nisi Jacobs.The video...

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

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...

Silent film by Ken Jacobs featuring his son asleep at the table then being put to bed.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"