Ken Jacobs Movies

The documentary’s starting point is the discovery and restoration of a rare and unknown photography reel reproduced from a mutoscope film, made...

A multi-part series of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

abstract short by Ken Jacobs

Berlin documented by the US after WW2, recorded again in 1986 by Flo and Ken feigning innocence when passing by elevated train between Capitalist...

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Jackie Raynal, originally aired 29 May 2016.

A stroboscopic train ride along a jungle stream. Asian military men appear with their pith-helmets, keeping the ferns, trees, monkeys, natives in...

An Eternalism film.

A young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by.

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...

2023, 25:34, digital

A digital animation of a Victorian stereoscopic photograph of a 19th-century factory floor, crowded with machinery and child workers. Filmmaker Ken...

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...

This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.

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

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

Short film with Jack Smith as the mysterious leader of an even-more-mysterious cult, garbed in pseudo-papal regalia and adorned with jewelry and...

An Eternalism film.

A celebration of Ken Jacobs' work at 80WSE.

2022, assisted by Antoine Catala

An Eternalism film.