Ken Jacobs Movies

2021, 1 minute 58 seconds, digital.

Ken Jacobs' seventh Book of Eternalisms.

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An installment of Ken Jacobs series Amorous Interludes

Features two old men talking on the Lower East Side; one loud mouth, the other bizarrely amiable, in 3D.

Obvious as the facts may be, (and available on the web; tap in the expression Reichstag 9/11), we are all wonderfully free to “make up our own...

A stroboscopic train ride along a jungle stream. Asian military men appear with their pith-helmets, keeping the ferns, trees, monkeys, natives in...

Each new year Flo and I join the young and many-languaged crowd walking to the top of Brooklyn Bridge ostensibly for the fireworks. Fact is the...

Jacobs's 1st Window is a dazzling balletic breaking-up of the cinematic frame.

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

3D film by Ken Jacobs

"NISSAN ARIANA WINDOW is 3/4's of our daughter's name. She was just kid when these pictures were taken. Some were taken before she was born: pregnant...

Ken Jacobs applying a strobing effect to NYC trees.

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Three identical prints of a single 100 foot fixed-camera take are shown from beginning to end-roll light-flare, with a few feet of blackness...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on August 5, 2021.

Part of a series of Eternalisms

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

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...