Ken Jacobs Movies

In Capitalism: Slavery, Jacobs uses a Victorian stereograph (a double-photograph) of slaves picking cotton under the watchful eye of a white overseer...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

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

Jack Smith descends a fire escape in a makeshift "Arabian" costume and improvises increasingly frenetic choreography.

Ken Jacobs’s most elusive and mysterious film is at once an allegory of movie-making, a demonstration of 8mm versatility, and a celebration of...

Henry Hills’s Emma’s Dilemma reinvents the portrait for the age of digital reproduction. In a set of tour-de-force probes into the images...

Description by Ken Jacobs: Get Up and Go is a glimpse given dimension. No day is complete without a visit to Chinatown and on this day my movie...

An Eternalism film.

An homage to Op-Art, Brain Operations was inspired by an optical illusion produced by checkered tiles on the artist's bathroom floor. "When editing...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

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An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

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

An Eternalism film.

The Nervous Magic Lantern is a projection device I came up with in the year 2000. With assistance from wife Flo (Florence) we have been performing...

A mostly silent (except for one 78 instrumental record played in the background of one sequence) experimental film centering around a stylized...

An Eternalism film.

Black and white evokes nostalgia for The Great Depression. Things were so cheap, including lives. We see daredevils (desperate people) compete for...