Ken Jacobs Movies

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...

"2013. USA. Directed by Ken Jacobs. With technical assistance by Nisi Jacobs. Part two of four. “Joys…began on the corner of Broadway...

An Eternalism film.

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

First screened as part of Jacobs' "Nervous System" film performance, The Georgetown Loop is based on an archival film from 1903, which Jacobs pairs...

This event was part of Arika’s Kill Your Timid Notion festival in 2007 at Dundee Contemporary Arts.

An Eternalism film.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Working with Virgil’s four-part poem “Georgics” and Antonio Vivaldi’s concertos “The Four Seasons” as models,...

An experimental feature made by rephotographing the 1905 Biograph short Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son.

In this short and beautiful piece, Jacobs creates a flicker effect by editing close-up footage of a stream together with sections of black, producing...

Co-made with Nisi Ariana

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

World Premiere -- Museum of Moving Image 1/14/2017

An Eternalism film.

A multi-part series of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

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...

Ken Jacobs short film

"One of the nice things about movies was you could keep them at a distance. Movies knew their place. We were dimensional, they were flat, so it was...

Assisted by Nisi Ariana, 24 minutes