Ken Jacobs Movies

A wholesome moment: Jonas Mekas, MM Serra, Ken Jacobs, and Flo Jacobs take lavender from a stranger's bush.

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

Mountain ranges lighter than air.

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

"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...

Assisted by Nisi Ariana, 24 minutes

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

In Capitalism: Slavery, Jacobs uses a Victorian stereograph (a double-photograph) of slaves picking cotton under the watchful eye of a white overseer...

First two-cycle Eternalism. Interesting for the contrast of movements and depth configurations but also in indicating an end to the display and...

"fails to distinguish art from history." An eternalism film by Ken Jacobs.

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...

An Eternalism film.

Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Part of a series of Eternalisms

In celebration of his 80th birthday, here is: THE ETERNAL COURTSHIP (an ipad short) For Ken and Flo Jacobs, with love and affection from all of us...

A reworking of 10 seconds from Entrée d`une noce à l`église (Entrance of a wedding at the church), the 1896 Lumiere brothers...

Jacobs documents the work of artist Ronald Gonzalez in his Binghamton, NY home and studio space. Producing more of an abstract portrait than a...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"