Ken Jacobs Movies

"Hidden in a movie shot is an infinity of monsters. Pause and they show themselves (at their worst in 3D)." - Ken Jacobs

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

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

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...

An Eternalism film.

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...

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...

An eternalism.

A 2023 Ken Jacobs Eternalism

An Eternalism film.

This work is derived from one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use neither film...

An Eternalism film.

Experimental short film directed by Ken Jacobs with music by diNMachine.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

No description from the artist.

“All hallucinations of Paradise Lost come from the longing to levitate. Vision is lightship and shipwreck - Herbert Postl from Ideal Forms of...

Ken Jacobs applies his patented Eternalism process to 3D images he took of Jackson Pollock's 1954 splatter painting.

An Eternalism film.

A stereograph of an ocean wave breaking is suspended in time as it reshapes in time and in depth. 3-D for both two eyed and single-eyed viewers.

'Blinking' 2D rendition of one of Ken Jacobs' Nervous System performances first presented in 1994.