Ken Jacobs Movies

Jacob's home movie portrait of Alfred Leslie and his family intercut with fragments of a Mickey Mouse cartoon.

2022, 12:43, digital. Drawing by Victor Tomofeev, "A Skater's City"

One last ferry ride with the Jacobs family.

An eternalism.

Features two old men talking on the Lower East Side; one loud mouth, the other bizarrely amiable, in 3D.

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

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

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

Abstract avantgarde film.

Henry Hills’s Emma’s Dilemma reinvents the portrait for the age of digital reproduction. In a set of tour-de-force probes into the images...

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...

Ken Jacobs' seventh Book of Eternalisms.

In Capitalism: Slavery, Jacobs uses a Victorian stereograph (a double-photograph) of slaves picking cotton under the watchful eye of a white overseer...

Assisted by Nisi Ariana, 24 minutes

World Premiere -- Museum of Moving Image 1/14/2017

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

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

Existing home movie titled and placed into distribution by Jacobs without intervention.

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