Ken Jacobs Movies

A series of video letters between José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

"The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my...

Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

A story told by director Ken Jacobs but without conventional storyline. Using a modified magic lantern, an early type of image projector developed in...

An Eternalism film.

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

An Eternalism film.

Anaglyph 3D film by Ken Jacobs based on a 1974 shadow play performance.

Here Jacobs revisits the original 1905 source material of his celebrated 1969 structuralist film, Tom Tom the Piper's Son. In his earlier film, a...

This work is derived from one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use neither film...

The moving camera shapes the screen image with great purposefulness, using the frame of a window as fulcrum upon which to wheel about the exterior...

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...

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