Ken Jacobs Movies

Ken Jacobs writes: "The first two sections were shot around Jack's loft on Reade Street on two 100' 16 mm rolls. Sunday morning, following Saturday's...

3D film by Ken Jacobs

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

One of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

An eternalism.

"Joys…began on the corner of Broadway and Spring but it was the next night waiting on Bleecker that it was understood a movie of sorts was...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Dir. Ken Jacobs. 2025, 48 mins. U.S. Digital. This colorful and cubist record of a Chinatown haircut is the final long-form work by the great...

'Blinking' 2D rendition of one of Ken Jacobs' Nervous System performances first presented in 1994.

No description from the artist.

Single fixed-camera take looking from within darkened room, (camera within a camera) out through fire-escape door into vertical space between rears...

3D Eternalism by Ken Jacobs

An homage to Op-Art, Brain Operations was inspired by an optical illusion produced by checkered tiles on the artist's bathroom floor. "When editing...

Part of a series of Eternalisms

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

Co-made with Nisi Ariana

Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

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

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs