Ken Jacobs Movies

An examination of the history of the U.S. through archival footage and contrasting views of society, incorporating audiovisual material ranging from...

Made in response to the death of his friends Bob Fleischner and Jack Smith, who died within one week of each other in 1989, this feature includes...

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

An Eternalism film.

Ken Jacobs’ most recent stroboscopic work transforms a typical New York street scaffolding scene into a mesmeric, Christo-esque merry-go-round.

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology’s voicemail system...

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...

This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.

An Eternailsm 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

2022, assisted by Antoine Catala

Ken Jacobs applies his patented Eternalism process to 3D images he took of Jackson Pollock's 1954 splatter painting.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

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

Features two old men talking on the Lower East Side; one loud mouth, the other bizarrely amiable, in 3D.

3D film by Ken Jacobs

"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...

"The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my...

A wholesome moment: Jonas Mekas, MM Serra, Ken Jacobs, and Flo Jacobs take lavender from a stranger's bush.