Ken Jacobs Movies

Single fixed-camera take looking from within darkened room, (camera within a camera) out through fire-escape door into vertical space between rears...

An Eternalism film.

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

Ken Jacobs film on Rodney King and the LA Riots utilizing Pulfrich 3-D, in which a single dark filter is placed before one eye.

Short film with Jack Smith as the mysterious leader of an even-more-mysterious cult, garbed in pseudo-papal regalia and adorned with jewelry and...

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...

Ken Jacobs short film eventually incorporated into The Sky Socialist.

Part of a series of Eternalisms

An Eternalism film.

Sequel to Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway

An Eternalism film.

Fall into winter 1964, Urban Renewal forced us to move a few blocks to West of Broadway. Our Sky Socialist ‘set’ is still standing and...

In this unique document, Jacobs demonstrates one of his live, multi-projection "Nervous System" film performances in real time. (The Nervous System...

Description by Ken Jacobs: A Spin Through Night City gets many visual elements spinning. Only daughter Nisi working at our computer knows how...

Here Jacobs revisits the original 1905 source material of his celebrated 1969 structuralist film, Tom Tom the Piper's Son. In his earlier film, a...

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.

Music composition by Harrison Birtwistle, 1971 tape realized by Peter Zinovieff. Nervous Magic Lantern performance by Ken jacobs, 1990.

A 2023 Ken Jacobs Eternalism

An Eternalism film.