Ken Jacobs Movies

In 1968, Noren finished Huge Pupils, a gorgeous, sensuous, sexually outrageous visual study of his daily life, and part I of an ongoing series he...

Still shots of a revolving door at New York City's Church Street Station Post Office are edited together to create a sense of movement, redoubled by...

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...

2021, 6:23, digital. Part of the Nervous Magic Lantern films.

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

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

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

This work is derived from one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use neither film...

No description from the artist.

An homage to Op-Art, Brain Operations was inspired by an optical illusion produced by checkered tiles on the artist's bathroom floor. "When editing...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

An Eternalism film.

Single fixed-camera take looking from within darkened room, (camera within a camera) out through fire-escape door into vertical space between rears...

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

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.