Ken Jacobs Filmes

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

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...

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

An Eternalism film.

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

In Capitalism: Slavery, Jacobs uses a Victorian stereograph (a double-photograph) of slaves picking cotton under the watchful eye of a white overseer...

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Jackie Raynal, originally aired 29 May 2016.

The moving camera shapes the screen image with great purposefulness, using the frame of a window as fulcrum upon which to wheel about the exterior...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

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

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

"Influenced by avant-garde artist-refugees from Europe, non-representational art dominated the art market after WW2 [...] Viewers offered open minds,...

In this unique document, Jacobs demonstrates one of his live, multi-projection "Nervous System" film performances in real time. (The Nervous System...

Ken Jacobs writes: "The first two sections were shot around Jack's loft on Reade Street on two 100' 16 mm rolls. Sunday morning, following Saturday's...

Jacobs applies his exacting digital techniques to footage of his New York City working and living space.

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...

Jacobs documents a New York street vendor, taking a short interaction between the vendor and a customer and protracting it into a strobing,...

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs