Ken Jacobs Movies

“All hallucinations of Paradise Lost come from the longing to levitate. Vision is lightship and shipwreck - Herbert Postl from Ideal Forms of...

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

An Eternalism film.

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

Spasm (2023, 13:41, digital)

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...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

A still image of a palm-lined wooden walkway is edited together with mirror-images, close-ups, upside-down renderings, and smaller, framed versions...

An Eternalism film.

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

Music composition by Harrison Birtwistle, 1971 tape realized by Peter Zinovieff. Nervous Magic Lantern performance by Ken jacobs, 1990.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

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...

Ken Jacobs’s most elusive and mysterious film is at once an allegory of movie-making, a demonstration of 8mm versatility, and a celebration of...

One of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

Part of a series of Eternalisms

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

Home movie by Ken Jacobs. Black and white and silent.