Ken Jacobs Movies

A film in the Popeye Series by Ken Jacobs

Found footage film by Ken Jacobs of Pygmalion starring Leslie Howard with various digital glitches.

A Rainy Day in New York.

A book of eternalisms, structured the same as the Tourists of the Familiar series, with an emphasis on water.

Film by Ken Jacobs. Exists as both 2D and 3D Version

2021, 1 minute 58 seconds, digital.

World Premiere -- Museum of Moving Image 1/14/2017

An Eternalism film.

First screened as part of Jacobs' "Nervous System" film performance, The Georgetown Loop is based on an archival film from 1903, which Jacobs pairs...

An Eternalism film.

Using the same stereoscopic animation technique of Jacobs' recent works Capitalism: Slavery (2006) and Nymph (2007), which he calls "a vigorous 3-D...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

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

Music composition by Harrison Birtwistle, 1971 tape realized by Peter Zinovieff. Nervous Magic Lantern performance by Ken jacobs, 1990.

Experimental short film directed by Ken Jacobs with music by diNMachine.

Jacobs applies his exacting digital techniques to footage of his New York City working and living space.

An Eternalism film.

In this short and beautiful piece, Jacobs creates a flicker effect by editing close-up footage of a stream together with sections of black, producing...

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.