Ken Jacobs Movies

An Eternalism film.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

In Capitalism: Slavery, Jacobs uses a Victorian stereograph (a double-photograph) of slaves picking cotton under the watchful eye of a white overseer...

An Eternalism film.

This work is a demonstration of one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use...

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

An Eternalism film.

Ken Jacobs' black and white abstract short from 2019, in five parts.

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

Jacobs’s hypnotic “3-D” adaptation of New York 1911, a long-forgotten Swedish documentary restored by MoMA in 2017, is...

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...

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

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

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...

Experimental short film. Silent.

2022, assisted by Antoine Catala

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

40 minute 3D work.

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

A book of eternalisms, structured the same as the Tourists of the Familiar series, with an emphasis on water.