Ken Jacobs Movies

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

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...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Avant-garde master Ken Jacobs' dizzying digital reinvention of a 1903 Edison "actuality" stretches and bends the one-minute film to an incredible,...

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

A 2023 Ken Jacobs Eternalism

Dir. Ken Jacobs. 2025, 48 mins. U.S. Digital. This colorful and cubist record of a Chinatown haircut is the final long-form work by the great...

An Eternalism film.

The moving camera shapes the screen image with great purposefulness, using the frame of a window as fulcrum upon which to wheel about the exterior...

Directed by Ken Jacobs, 1985. In Jacobs' own words: "I wish more stuff was available in its raw state, as primary source material for anyone to...

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...

Part of a series of Eternalisms

In this late work (made with Azazel Jacobs’s participation), Ken Jacobs returns to an earlier (and frequent) subject, the bric-a-brac-laden...

3D Eternalism by Ken Jacobs

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"3D is rather a slighting way to speak of deep space. I enjoyed AVATAR and HUGO, though not much else among the movies I’ve seen in illusionary...

An installment of Ken Jacobs series Amorous Interludes

A still image of a palm-lined wooden walkway is edited together with mirror-images, close-ups, upside-down renderings, and smaller, framed versions...

An Eternalism film.