Ken Jacobs Movies

Co-made with Nisi Ariana

A book of eternalisms, structured the same as the Tourists of the Familiar series, with an emphasis on water.

2021, 6:23, digital. Part of the Nervous Magic Lantern films.

An Eternalism film.

Jacobs documents the work of artist Ronald Gonzalez in his Binghamton, NY home and studio space. Producing more of an abstract portrait than a...

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.

Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925) digitally embossed

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

The Roses is a meditation on art, aging, and the nature of listening, as well a conversation between generations and between artists. The anaglyph...

"Details of paintings by Joan Mitchell undergo Eternalizing. The process introduces emphatic flicker that helps create illusions of depth, even for a...

A reworking of 10 seconds from Entrée d`une noce à l`église (Entrance of a wedding at the church), the 1896 Lumiere brothers...

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

An Eternalism film.

Short film by Ken Jacobs later included in his compilation The Whirled.

An Eternalism film.

Jacobs's 1st Window is a dazzling balletic breaking-up of the cinematic frame.

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

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

An Eternalism film.