Ken Jacobs Movies

"Influenced by avant-garde artist-refugees from Europe, non-representational art dominated the art market after WW2 [...] Viewers offered open minds,...

Keaton's One Week (1920) digitally embossed

This work is a demonstration of one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use...

An Eternalism film.

One of Ken Jacobs' Amorous Interludes

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

Suggestion: Please see 'Another Occupation' before 'Seeking the Monkey King'. Contains flicker like many of my works; avoid if you have epilepsy or...

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

A 3-D vacation album, The Day Was a Scorcher pictures what Jacobs describes as "movie-star Flo, Nisi the thoughtful young girl, and Aza old enough to...

Co-made with Nisi Ariana

Part of a series of Eternalisms

An 8mm film by Ken Jacobs made after his 16mm camera was stolen

Ken Jacobs, the erstwhile master of experimental celluloid filmmaking, fully embraces video technology in this reworking of the 1929 Laurel and Hardy...

A multi-part series of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

An Eternalism film.

Ken Jacobs describes Bob Fleischner Dying: "Bob allows his sick and fading image to be caught in stereo photography. A man of mystery, so banal in...

"NISSAN ARIANA WINDOW is 3/4's of our daughter's name. She was just kid when these pictures were taken. Some were taken before she was born: pregnant...

Silent film by Ken Jacobs featuring his son asleep at the table then being put to bed.

A musical with Nazis and Jews.