Ken Jacobs Movies

A Tom Tom Chaser is Jacobs' 2002 poetic riff on the transformation of his classic film Tom Tom the Piper's Son from chemical to electronic form...

3D Eternalism by Ken Jacobs

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Avant-garde master Ken Jacobs' dizzying digital reinvention of a 1903 Edison "actuality" stretches and bends the one-minute film to an incredible,...

2022, 12:43, digital. Drawing by Victor Tomofeev, "A Skater's City"

An Eternalism film.

Jacob's home movie portrait of Alfred Leslie and his family intercut with fragments of a Mickey Mouse cartoon.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

One of the most extraordinary personalities in the history of moving images, native New Yorker Ken Jacobs, and his wife and long-time creative...

'Blinking' 2D rendition of one of Ken Jacobs' Nervous System performances first presented in 1994.

Co-made with Nisi Ariana

"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...

Co-made with Nisi Ariana

A film in the Popeye Series by Ken Jacobs

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

Found Footage avantgarde film.

Part of a series of Eternalisms

An installment of Ken Jacobs series Amorous Interludes

Ken and Flo Jacobs walk from an MTA bus to their apartment in the icy rain. This is transformed by a 360° camera and digital effects into an...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"