Ken Jacobs Movies

"Joys…began on the corner of Broadway and Spring but it was the next night waiting on Bleecker that it was understood a movie of sorts was...

A story told by director Ken Jacobs but without conventional storyline. Using a modified magic lantern, an early type of image projector developed in...

Premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on August 5, 2021.

Ken Jacobs short film eventually incorporated into The Sky Socialist.

One of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Jackie Raynal, originally aired 29 May 2016.

Studying painting with Hans Hofmann had sensitized me to depth phenomena, to strange readings of depth including the most unnatural: flat. In 1964, I...

An Eternalism film.

"Waiting, waiting, for a bus to carry us a mile downtown. We often give up and walk. When we commit ourselves to waiting the bus usually appears with...

A 2021 Jacobs Eternalism

A picturing of sound in 3D.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Three identical prints of a single 100 foot fixed-camera take are shown from beginning to end-roll light-flare, with a few feet of blackness...

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

3D film by Ken Jacobs

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