Ken Jacobs Movies

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...

Keaton's One Week (1920) digitally embossed

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2021, 6:23, digital. Part of the Nervous Magic Lantern films.

An Eternalism film.

A 2023 Ken Jacobs Eternalism

Part of his “Nervous System” performances, the artist’s skills as a projectionist were highlighted when he invented this specially...

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An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

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...

In 1968, Noren finished Huge Pupils, a gorgeous, sensuous, sexually outrageous visual study of his daily life, and part I of an ongoing series he...

One of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

Assisted by Nisi Ariana, 24 minutes

One of Ken Jacobs' Amorous Interludes

Early 20th-century street vendors push their carts loaded with vegetables. It is time for them to go. Little by little, the viewer discovers...

An Eternalism film.

"Waiting, waiting, for a bus to carry us a mile downtown. We often give up and walk. When we commit ourselves to waiting the bus usually appears with...

"Flat image (of snowbound suburban housing tract) blossoms into 3D only when viewer places Eye Opener before the right eye. (Keeping both eyes open,...

Avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs presents Buster Keaton's short silent comedy Cops (1922) as his own work by blacking-out approximately the top...