Ken Jacobs Movies

A film in the Popeye Series by Ken Jacobs

2023, 25:34, digital

Found footage film by Ken Jacobs of Pygmalion starring Leslie Howard with various digital glitches.

"Waiting, waiting, for a bus to carry us a mile downtown. We often give up and walk. When we commit ourselves to waiting the bus usually appears with...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

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...

Illusions of Depth in Flux

An Eternalism film.

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

Ken Jacobs applying a strobing effect to NYC trees.

A stereo-photo of an ocean wave slowly turns and churns. The hidden forces of Cinema conspire with an instant of history to produce actions that...

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...

A film by Ken Jacobs made in 8mm

3D film by Ken Jacobs

An eternalism.

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

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