Ken Jacobs Movies

A film by Ken Jacobs made in 8mm

Keaton's One Week (1920) digitally embossed

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

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

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 stereo-photo of an ocean wave slowly turns and churns. The hidden forces of Cinema conspire with an instant of history to produce actions that...

This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology’s voicemail system...

A short by Ken Jacobs. Taormina, Sicily; Mt. Etna erupting nearby.

A strobing deconstruction of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight.

An installment of Ken Jacobs series Amorous Interludes

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

A Tom Tom Chaser is Jacobs' 2002 poetic riff on the transformation of his classic film Tom Tom the Piper's Son from chemical to electronic form...

A man fondles objects, looks at himself in the mirror, poses in different clothes, smiles and makes faces at the camera while his voice on the...

One of the most extraordinary personalities in the history of moving images, native New Yorker Ken Jacobs, and his wife and long-time creative...

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

"Details of paintings by Joan Mitchell undergo Eternalizing. The process introduces emphatic flicker that helps create illusions of depth, even for a...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

40 minute 3D work.

An Eternalism film.