Ken Jacobs Movies

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

An Eternalism film.

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

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

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

An Eternalism film.

“‘FAIR AND WHITE’ is the name of a line of beauty parlors in Paris largely catering to an African-French clientele. No-one...

Co-made with Nisi Ariana

Black and white evokes nostalgia for The Great Depression. Things were so cheap, including lives. We see daredevils (desperate people) compete for...

Digitally remixed elements from Ken Jacobs' 1960s film The Sky Socialist

Writes Ken Jacobs: "Louis-Aimé-Augustin Le Prince was the first person to create, in 1885, a single recording apparatus that photographed...

Found Footage avantgarde film.

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

A multi-part series of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

A film in the Popeye Series by Ken Jacobs

Part of a series of Eternalisms

Directed by Ken Jacobs, 1985. In Jacobs' own words: "I wish more stuff was available in its raw state, as primary source material for anyone to...

An installment of Ken Jacobs series Amorous Interludes

An Eternalism film.