Ken Jacobs Movies

First two-cycle Eternalism. Interesting for the contrast of movements and depth configurations but also in indicating an end to the display and...

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

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...

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Illusions of Depth in Flux

An Eternalism film.

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...

A study in lunging waves, in 3D.

Jack Smith descends a fire escape in a makeshift "Arabian" costume and improvises increasingly frenetic choreography.

An Eternalism film.

A film by Ken Jacobs in his Amorous Interludes series

An Eternalism film.

One of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Single fixed-camera take looking from within darkened room, (camera within a camera) out through fire-escape door into vertical space between rears...

Premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on August 5, 2021.

An Eternalism film.

A 2021 Jacobs Eternalism

A stroboscopic train ride along a jungle stream. Asian military men appear with their pith-helmets, keeping the ferns, trees, monkeys, natives in...