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...

A film by Ken Jacobs in his Amorous Interludes series

"2013. USA. Directed by Ken Jacobs. With technical assistance by Nisi Jacobs. Part two of four. “Joys…began on the corner of Broadway...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

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 Eternalism film.

"3D is rather a slighting way to speak of deep space. I enjoyed AVATAR and HUGO, though not much else among the movies I’ve seen in illusionary...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

Jacobs’s hypnotic “3-D” adaptation of New York 1911, a long-forgotten Swedish documentary restored by MoMA in 2017, is...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Abstract avantgarde film.

A short by Ken Jacobs. Taormina, Sicily; Mt. Etna erupting nearby.

"Hidden in a movie shot is an infinity of monsters. Pause and they show themselves (at their worst in 3D)." - 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...

"You've come back" "You're still here"

An Eternalism film.

2023, 25:34, digital

Part of his “Nervous System” performances, the artist’s skills as a projectionist were highlighted when he invented this specially...

"Flat image (of snowbound suburban housing tract) blossoms into 3D only when viewer places Eye Opener before the right eye. (Keeping both eyes open,...