Ken Jacobs Movies

2022, assisted by Antoine Catala

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

3D eternalism by Ken Jacobs

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

Blankets for Indians blends a stereoscopic study of water spurting from New York’s City Hall fountain with an intimately detailed portrait of...

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

“‘FAIR AND WHITE’ is the name of a line of beauty parlors in Paris largely catering to an African-French clientele. No-one...

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...

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

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

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

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

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...

An Eternalism film.

Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

Part of a series of Eternalisms

Ken Jacobs' seventh Book of Eternalisms.

This work is a demonstration of one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use...