Ken Jacobs Movies

The moving camera shapes the screen image with great purposefulness, using the frame of a window as fulcrum upon which to wheel about the exterior...

Ken Jacobs' seventh Book of Eternalisms.

Berlin documented by the US after WW2, recorded again in 1986 by Flo and Ken feigning innocence when passing by elevated train between Capitalist...

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

An unfinished 3D film using the Pulfrich filter. "We travel by train through the mountains of central and northern Italy, 3-D country; the Alps,...

Part of a series of Eternalisms

2022, assisted by Antoine Catala

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...

A still image of a palm-lined wooden walkway is edited together with mirror-images, close-ups, upside-down renderings, and smaller, framed versions...

Silent film by Ken Jacobs featuring his son asleep at the table then being put to bed.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Ken Jacobs’ most recent stroboscopic work transforms a typical New York street scaffolding scene into a mesmeric, Christo-esque merry-go-round.

A Ken Jacobs eternalism made using a dazzling iPhone panorama from James Otis.

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

Spasm (2023, 13:41, digital)

Dir. Ken Jacobs. 2025, 48 mins. U.S. Digital. This colorful and cubist record of a Chinatown haircut is the final long-form work by the great...

Part of a series of Eternalisms

An Eternalism film.

“‘FAIR AND WHITE’ is the name of a line of beauty parlors in Paris largely catering to an African-French clientele. No-one...

The eighth entry in Ken Jacobs Book of Eternalisms series.