Ken Jacobs Movies

An Eternalism film.

Digitally remixed elements from Ken Jacobs' 1960s film The Sky Socialist

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

Little Stabs at Happiness is a collection of silent shorts Jacobs shot from the period of 1959-1963. Jaunty tunes (and a somber reflection) accompany...

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...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

A 3D film by Ken Jacobs

Existing home movie titled and placed into distribution by Jacobs without intervention.

Studying painting with Hans Hofmann had sensitized me to depth phenomena, to strange readings of depth including the most unnatural: flat. In 1964, I...

A sly take on recent US foreign policy in the Middle East, 3D footage of the exit from NYFF’s premiere of The Social Network makes for...

One of Ken Jacobs' Amorous Interludes

"The image on the screen flickers unsteadily; the rhythm is unsettling: black/white, black/white, white/black. The film cuts abruptly to a...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Found footage film by Ken Jacobs of Pygmalion starring Leslie Howard with various digital glitches.

An Eternalism film.

Short film by Ken Jacobs later included in his compilation The Whirled.

Mountain ranges lighter than air.