Ken Jacobs Movies

In celebration of his 80th birthday, here is: THE ETERNAL COURTSHIP (an ipad short) For Ken and Flo Jacobs, with love and affection from all of us...

Shot in 1959, Scotch Tape is Jack Smith's first film -- a joyous, three-minute romp, in color, using Peter Duchin's rhumba "Carinhoso" for its...

3D eternalism by Ken Jacobs

Avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs presents Buster Keaton's short silent comedy Cops (1922) as his own work by blacking-out approximately the top...

An 8mm film by Ken Jacobs made after his 16mm camera was stolen

An Eternalism film.

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

Jacobs documents the work of artist Ronald Gonzalez in his Binghamton, NY home and studio space. Producing more of an abstract portrait than a...

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

Mountain ranges lighter than air.

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

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

3D film by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Illusions of Depth in Flux

"Details of paintings by Joan Mitchell undergo Eternalizing. The process introduces emphatic flicker that helps create illusions of depth, even for a...

“All hallucinations of Paradise Lost come from the longing to levitate. Vision is lightship and shipwreck - Herbert Postl from Ideal Forms of...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.