Ken Jacobs Movies

A young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by.

Part of a series of Eternalisms

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

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

3D Eternalism by Ken Jacobs

Features two old men talking on the Lower East Side; one loud mouth, the other bizarrely amiable, in 3D.

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...

Part of a series of Eternalisms

A celebration of Ken Jacobs' work at 80WSE.

An Eternalism film.

"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...

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

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

Each new year Flo and I join the young and many-languaged crowd walking to the top of Brooklyn Bridge ostensibly for the fireworks. Fact is the...

Ken Jacobs at a Chinese restaurant.

An Eternalism film.