Ken Jacobs Movies

An adult decides to escape the pressures of life and return to his old bedroom at his parents' house.

Found footage film by Ken Jacobs of Pygmalion starring Leslie Howard with various digital glitches.

First screened as part of Jacobs' "Nervous System" film performance, The Georgetown Loop is based on an archival film from 1903, which Jacobs pairs...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Part of a series of Eternalisms

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Assisted by Nisi Ariana, 24 minutes

A young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by.

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

A stereograph of an ocean wave breaking is suspended in time as it reshapes in time and in depth. 3-D for both two eyed and single-eyed viewers.

A short by Ken Jacobs. Taormina, Sicily; Mt. Etna erupting nearby.

A series of video letters between José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas.

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...

The moving camera shapes the screen image with great purposefulness, using the frame of a window as fulcrum upon which to wheel about the exterior...

An Eternalism film.

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

An Eternalism film.

Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

Using his trademark flicker method, Ken Jacobs pays homage to the oldest type of color film, Kodachrome (whose production was discontinued in 2009)...