Ken Jacobs Movies

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

A stereo-photo of an ocean wave slowly turns and churns. The hidden forces of Cinema conspire with an instant of history to produce actions that...

A film by Ken Jacobs made in 8mm

“The film said something necessary at the time: the numinous is everywhere, even upstate Rust Belt Binghamton. The light was perfect, students...

An Eternailsm 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

Still shots of a revolving door at New York City's Church Street Station Post Office are edited together to create a sense of movement, redoubled by...

An Eternalism film.

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

Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925) digitally embossed

Ken Jacobs short film

Description by Ken Jacobs: Along the Elevated is an expanse of city architecture in delicious depth (depth is not only what things exist in, its ins...

An unfinished 8mm film from 1964

"fails to distinguish art from history." An eternalism film by Ken Jacobs.

Blankets for Indians blends a stereoscopic study of water spurting from New York’s City Hall fountain with an intimately detailed portrait of...

A Ken Jacobs eternalism made using a dazzling iPhone panorama from James Otis.

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...

An Eternalism film.

One of Ken Jacobs' Amorous Interludes

Abstract avantgarde film.

An Eternalism film.