Ken Jacobs Movies

Working with Virgil’s four-part poem “Georgics” and Antonio Vivaldi’s concertos “The Four Seasons” as models,...

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...

Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Anaglyph 3D film by Ken Jacobs based on a 1974 shadow play performance.

An Eternalism film.

Co-made with Nisi Ariana

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...

The eighth entry in Ken Jacobs Book of Eternalisms series.

Early 20th-century street vendors push their carts loaded with vegetables. It is time for them to go. Little by little, the viewer discovers...

An Eternalism film.

Assisted by Nisi Ariana, 24 minutes

Ken Jacobs' seventh Book 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...

Ken Jacobs short film eventually incorporated into The Sky Socialist.

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

No description from the artist.

Writes Ken Jacobs: "Louis-Aimé-Augustin Le Prince was the first person to create, in 1885, a single recording apparatus that photographed...

A multi-part series of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.