Ken Jacobs Movies

  • 2007
    Hanky Panky January 1902

    Hanky Panky January 1902

    Hanky Panky January 1902

    02007HD

    An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

    Hanky Panky January 1902
  • 2011
    Seeking the Monkey King

    Seeking the Monkey King

    Seeking the Monkey King

    4.82011HD

    Suggestion: Please see 'Another Occupation' before 'Seeking the Monkey King'. Contains flicker like many of my works; avoid if you have epilepsy or...

    Seeking the Monkey King
  • 2017
    A Spin Through Night City

    A Spin Through Night City

    A Spin Through Night City

    02017HD

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

    A Spin Through Night City
  • 2023
    Tourists of the Familiar 20

    Tourists of the Familiar 20

    Tourists of the Familiar 20

    02023HD

    Part of a series of Eternalisms

    Tourists of the Familiar 20
  • 2020
    Movie That Invites Pausing

    Movie That Invites Pausing

    Movie That Invites Pausing

    02020HD

    "Influenced by avant-garde artist-refugees from Europe, non-representational art dominated the art market after WW2 [...] Viewers offered open minds,...

    Movie That Invites Pausing
  • 2019
    Nervous Magic Lantern: 3D for One or Two Naked Eyes

    Nervous Magic Lantern: 3D for One or Two Naked Eyes

    Nervous Magic Lantern: 3D for One or Two Naked Eyes

    02019HD

    Assisted by Nisi Ariana, 24 minutes

    Nervous Magic Lantern: 3D for One or Two Naked Eyes
  • 2002
    Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence

    Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence

    Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence

    02002HD

    Our daughter Nisi and son Aza happened to both be staying at our loft on Chambers Street when fundamentalist Islam struck. A friend observing the...

    Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence
  • 2011
    The Green Wave

    The Green Wave

    The Green Wave

    02011HD

    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.

    The Green Wave
  • 2016
    I'm Telling You

    I'm Telling You

    I'm Telling You

    02016HD

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

    I'm Telling You
  • 2019
    Failure

    Failure

    Failure

    02019HD

    "fails to distinguish art from history." An eternalism film by Ken Jacobs.

    Failure
  • 2023
    Tourists of the Familiar 15

    Tourists of the Familiar 15

    Tourists of the Familiar 15

    02023HD

    Part of a series of Eternalisms

    Tourists of the Familiar 15
  • 2016
    Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

    Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

    Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

    02016HD

    "Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

    Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
  • 2015
    Zazie Learns About Money

    Zazie Learns About Money

    Zazie Learns About Money

    02015HD

    Film by Ken Jacobs. Exists as both 2D and 3D Version

    Zazie Learns About Money
  • 2014
    The Guests

    The Guests

    The Guests

    62014HD

    A reworking of 10 seconds from Entrée d`une noce à l`église (Entrance of a wedding at the church), the 1896 Lumiere brothers...

    The Guests
  • 1967
    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

    For Life, Against the War

    61967HD

    First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

    For Life, Against the War
  • 2012
    Emma's Dilemma

    Emma's Dilemma

    Emma's Dilemma

    12012HD

    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...

    Emma's Dilemma
  • 2019
    Details of Pollock's White Light

    Details of Pollock's White Light

    Details of Pollock's White Light

    02019HD

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

    Details of Pollock's White Light
  • 2020
    Halley’s Comet

    Halley’s Comet

    Halley’s Comet

    02020HD

    An Eternalism film.

    Halley’s Comet
  • 2009
    Berkeley To San Francisco

    Berkeley To San Francisco

    Berkeley To San Francisco

    02009HD

    Freeview 3D film by Ken Jacobs

    Berkeley To San Francisco
  • 2007
    New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903

    New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903

    New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903

    62007HD

    First created and presented as a Tzadik New Jewish Culture offering in 1993. First performed live as a Nervous System performance with Catherine...

    New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903