Ken Jacobs Movies

An eternalism film.

"One that creates a macabre dance by animating his own drawings." - Steve Anker

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.

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

Experimental short film directed by Ken Jacobs with music by diNMachine.

Co-made with Nisi Ariana

A sly take on recent US foreign policy in the Middle East, 3D footage of the exit from NYFF’s premiere of The Social Network makes for...

abstract short by Ken Jacobs

2022, assisted by Antoine Catala

"3D is rather a slighting way to speak of deep space. I enjoyed AVATAR and HUGO, though not much else among the movies I’ve seen in illusionary...

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

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

An Eternalism film.

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

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...

A 2021 Jacobs Eternalism

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

A 3D film by Ken Jacobs

"One of the nice things about movies was you could keep them at a distance. Movies knew their place. We were dimensional, they were flat, so it was...