Ken Jacobs Movies

Three identical prints of a single 100 foot fixed-camera take are shown from beginning to end-roll light-flare, with a few feet of blackness...

An Eternalism film.

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

In the backyard with the inimitable Jerry Sims. Shot in 8mm in 1975, edited and transferred to 16mm in 1987.

Description by Ken Jacobs: Along the Elevated is an expanse of city architecture in delicious depth (depth is not only what things exist in, its ins...

Experimental short film.

Ken Jacobs’ most recent stroboscopic work transforms a typical New York street scaffolding scene into a mesmeric, Christo-esque merry-go-round.

One of Ken Jacobs' Amorous Interludes

3D Polaroid *Note: Must be viewed on 3D monitor with polaroid glasses Duration: 9' Year: 2015 Sound

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

Jacobs’s hypnotic “3-D” adaptation of New York 1911, a long-forgotten Swedish documentary restored by MoMA in 2017, is...

An eternalism film.

An 8mm film by Ken Jacobs made after his 16mm camera was stolen

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

A film in the Popeye Series by Ken Jacobs

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

One last ferry ride with the Jacobs family.

A Ken Jacobs eternalism made using a dazzling iPhone panorama from James Otis.

An unfinished 8mm film from 1964

Ken Jacobs short film