Ken Jacobs Movies

  • 2020
    Foliage in Moving Car Window

    Foliage in Moving Car Window

    Foliage in Moving Car Window

    02020HD

    An Eternalism film.

    Foliage in Moving Car Window
  • 2008
    Return to the Scene of the Crime

    Return to the Scene of the Crime

    Return to the Scene of the Crime

    02008HD

    This is how the film begins, duck-on-a-leash to Little Bo Peep to the revealing of the too-busy full stage-set. Each gets their close-up and the many...

    Return to the Scene of the Crime
  • 2023
    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    02023HD

    A 2023 Ken Jacobs Eternalism

    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
  • 2017
    Capitalism Defeats Life on Earth, Cab in Rain

    Capitalism Defeats Life on Earth, Cab in Rain

    Capitalism Defeats Life on Earth, Cab in Rain

    02017HD

    One of Ken Jacobs' eternalism films that explores themes of environmental destruction and capitalist greed through a 3D, suspended-time, stereoscopic...

    Capitalism Defeats Life on Earth, Cab in Rain
  • 2005
    Let There Be Whistle Blowers

    Let There Be Whistle Blowers

    Let There Be Whistle Blowers

    02005HD

    A train passes though a tunnel and hurtles on to a station. Time and space are toyed with, things enter an impossible state of ongoing movement while...

    Let There Be Whistle Blowers
  • 2003
    Nervous Ken

    Nervous Ken

    Nervous Ken

    02003HD

    In NERVOUS KEN, experimental film legend Ken Jacobs is "interviewed" by my urbane 12-year old M.C., Emma Bernstein. Envisioning an exploration of the...

    Nervous Ken
  • 2013
    A Primer in Sky Socialism

    A Primer in Sky Socialism

    A Primer in Sky Socialism

    02013HD

    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 Primer in Sky Socialism
  • 2014
    Popeye Sees 3-D

    Popeye Sees 3-D

    Popeye Sees 3-D

    02014HD

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

    Popeye Sees 3-D
  • 2020
    Another Day in Days of Yore

    Another Day in Days of Yore

    Another Day in Days of Yore

    02020HD

    An Eternalism film.

    Another Day in Days of Yore
  • 2021
    In Front of Anthology

    In Front of Anthology

    In Front of Anthology

    02021HD

    2021, 1 minute 58 seconds, digital.

    In Front of Anthology
  • 2002
    A Tom Tom Chaser

    A Tom Tom Chaser

    A Tom Tom Chaser

    02002HD

    A Tom Tom Chaser is Jacobs' 2002 poetic riff on the transformation of his classic film Tom Tom the Piper's Son from chemical to electronic form...

    A Tom Tom Chaser
  • 2010
    Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two

    Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two

    Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two

    02010HD

    Sequel to Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway

    Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two
  • 1956
    Little Cobra Dance

    Little Cobra Dance

    Little Cobra Dance

    01956HD

    Jack Smith descends a fire escape in a makeshift "Arabian" costume and improvises increasingly frenetic choreography.

    Little Cobra Dance
  • 2019
    Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party

    Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party

    Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party

    02019HD

    "My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

    Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
  • 2011
    The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street

    The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street

    The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street

    02011HD

    Early 20th-century street vendors push their carts loaded with vegetables. It is time for them to go. Little by little, the viewer discovers...

    The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street
  • 2020
    Halley’s Comet

    Halley’s Comet

    Halley’s Comet

    02020HD

    An Eternalism film.

    Halley’s Comet
  • 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
  • 2010
    Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway

    Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway

    Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway

    02010HD

    An anaglyph 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

    Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway
  • 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
  • 2009
    The Day Was a Scorcher

    The Day Was a Scorcher

    The Day Was a Scorcher

    02009HD

    A 3-D vacation album, The Day Was a Scorcher pictures what Jacobs describes as "movie-star Flo, Nisi the thoughtful young girl, and Aza old enough to...

    The Day Was a Scorcher