Ken Jacobs Movies

A picturing of sound in 3D.

A multi-part series of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

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...

In the backyard with the inimitable Jerry Sims. Shot in 8mm in 1975, edited and transferred to 16mm in 1987.

“All hallucinations of Paradise Lost come from the longing to levitate. Vision is lightship and shipwreck - Herbert Postl from Ideal Forms of...

Keaton's One Week (1920) digitally embossed

Short film with Jack Smith as the mysterious leader of an even-more-mysterious cult, garbed in pseudo-papal regalia and adorned with jewelry and...

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

Henry Hills’s Emma’s Dilemma reinvents the portrait for the age of digital reproduction. In a set of tour-de-force probes into the images...

A film by Ken Jacobs in his Amorous Interludes series

Part of a series of Eternalisms

2021, 6:23, digital. Part of the Nervous Magic Lantern films.

"One of the nice things about movies was you could keep them at a distance. Movies knew their place. We were dimensional, they were flat, so it was...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Part of a series of Eternalisms

An Eternalism film.

An unfinished 3D film using the Pulfrich filter. "We travel by train through the mountains of central and northern Italy, 3-D country; the Alps,...

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

Part of a series of Eternalisms