Ken Jacobs Movies

In celebration of his 80th birthday, here is: THE ETERNAL COURTSHIP (an ipad short) For Ken and Flo Jacobs, with love and affection from all of us...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

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...

First screened as part of Jacobs' "Nervous System" film performance, The Georgetown Loop is based on an archival film from 1903, which Jacobs pairs...

A picturing of sound in 3D.

One of Ken Jacobs' eternalism films that explores themes of environmental destruction and capitalist greed through a 3D, suspended-time, stereoscopic...

3D Eternalism by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

Each new year Flo and I join the young and many-languaged crowd walking to the top of Brooklyn Bridge ostensibly for the fireworks. Fact is the...

An Eternalism film.

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

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

An Eternalism film.

Anaglyph 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

Filmed by Stella Weiss and family, chance-assembled from uncut 100-foot film-rolls. Sound precedes and follows silent image (40 minutes of image plus...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

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

Jacob's home movie portrait of Alfred Leslie and his family intercut with fragments of a Mickey Mouse cartoon.

Existing home movie titled and placed into distribution by Jacobs without intervention.

Made in response to the death of his friends Bob Fleischner and Jack Smith, who died within one week of each other in 1989, this feature includes...