Ken Jacobs Movies

Ken Jacobs’s most elusive and mysterious film is at once an allegory of movie-making, a demonstration of 8mm versatility, and a celebration of...

In this late work (made with Azazel Jacobs’s participation), Ken Jacobs returns to an earlier (and frequent) subject, the bric-a-brac-laden...

An Eternalism film.

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

Digitally remixed elements from Ken Jacobs' 1960s film The Sky Socialist

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

Spasm (2023, 13:41, digital)

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

Stereograph of the crowd at the opening of the US Centennial Exposition of 1893. It turns into a movie. Into an enormous rugged and craggy 3-D...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs presents Buster Keaton's short silent comedy Cops (1922) as his own work by blacking-out approximately the top...

An Eternalism film.

Black and white evokes nostalgia for The Great Depression. Things were so cheap, including lives. We see daredevils (desperate people) compete for...

A mostly silent (except for one 78 instrumental record played in the background of one sequence) experimental film centering around a stylized...

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

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

An Eternalism film.

A film by Ken Jacobs in his Amorous Interludes series

An Eternalism film.