Ken Jacobs Movies

2021, 6:23, digital. Part of the Nervous Magic Lantern films.

The Nervous Magic Lantern is a projection device I came up with in the year 2000. With assistance from wife Flo (Florence) we have been performing...

The Roses is a meditation on art, aging, and the nature of listening, as well a conversation between generations and between artists. The anaglyph...

Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

A picturing of sound in 3D.

Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

2023, 25:34, digital

An Eternalism film.

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

A 2023 Ken Jacobs Eternalism

An Eternalism film.

A stroboscopic train ride along a jungle stream. Asian military men appear with their pith-helmets, keeping the ferns, trees, monkeys, natives in...

An Eternalism film.

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

Throbbing light not for persons afflicted with epilepsy. A train passes through a tunnel and hurtles on to a station. Time and space is toyed with,...

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Part of a series of Eternalisms

The documentary’s starting point is the discovery and restoration of a rare and unknown photography reel reproduced from a mutoscope film, made...

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...

Jack Smith descends a fire escape in a makeshift "Arabian" costume and improvises increasingly frenetic choreography.