Ken Jacobs Movies

Part of a series of Eternalisms

An Eternalism film.

Dir. Ken Jacobs. 2025, 48 mins. U.S. Digital. This colorful and cubist record of a Chinatown haircut is the final long-form work by the great...

"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...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Avant-garde master Ken Jacobs' dizzying digital reinvention of a 1903 Edison "actuality" stretches and bends the one-minute film to an incredible,...

A Tom Tom Chaser is Jacobs' 2002 poetic riff on the transformation of his classic film Tom Tom the Piper's Son from chemical to electronic form...

Ken Jacobs' seventh Book of Eternalisms.

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...

Shot in 1959, Scotch Tape is Jack Smith's first film -- a joyous, three-minute romp, in color, using Peter Duchin's rhumba "Carinhoso" for its...

This is how the film begins, duck-on-a-leash to Little Bo Peep to the revealing of the too-busy full stage-set. Each gets their close-up and the many...

Ken Jacobs applies three-dimensional digital animation to a century-old film by Edwin S. Porter.

The eighth entry in Ken Jacobs Book of Eternalisms series.

Anaglyph 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

Co-made with Nisi Ariana

Jacob's home movie portrait of Alfred Leslie and his family intercut with fragments of a Mickey Mouse cartoon.

1906 - Original cinematographer unknown. 1996 - New arrangement by Ken Jacobs. Shots shown as found in "A Trip Down Mount Tamalpais", the Paper Print...

Short visit to Zuccotti Park. Flo and I walk along Broadway and meet no less that 50,000 people turning onto Broadway at Chambers Street. The event...

An Eternalism film.