Ken Jacobs Movies

Obvious as the facts may be, (and available on the web; tap in the expression Reichstag 9/11), we are all wonderfully free to “make up our own...

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An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Assisted by Nisi Ariana, 24 minutes

Blankets for Indians blends a stereoscopic study of water spurting from New York’s City Hall fountain with an intimately detailed portrait of...

An Eternalism film.

Studying painting with Hans Hofmann had sensitized me to depth phenomena, to strange readings of depth including the most unnatural: flat. In 1964, I...

Each new year Flo and I join the young and many-languaged crowd walking to the top of Brooklyn Bridge ostensibly for the fireworks. Fact is the...

In this late work (made with Azazel Jacobs’s participation), Ken Jacobs returns to an earlier (and frequent) subject, the bric-a-brac-laden...

Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

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...

Silent film by Ken Jacobs featuring his son asleep at the table then being put to bed.

Black and white evokes nostalgia for The Great Depression. Things were so cheap, including lives. We see daredevils (desperate people) compete for...

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

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

Ken Jacobs describes Bob Fleischner Dying: "Bob allows his sick and fading image to be caught in stereo photography. A man of mystery, so banal in...

Ken Jacobs short film eventually incorporated into The Sky Socialist.

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