Ken Jacobs Movies

  • 2017
    Swee’pea’s Favorite Eternalisms

    Swee’pea’s Favorite Eternalisms

    Swee’pea’s Favorite Eternalisms

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    3D Eternalism by Ken Jacobs

    Swee’pea’s Favorite Eternalisms
  • 2024
    Riverbed

    Riverbed

    Riverbed

    02024HD

    A book of eternalisms, structured the same as the Tourists of the Familiar series, with an emphasis on water.

    Riverbed
  • 2015
    Chrysalis

    Chrysalis

    Chrysalis

    02015HD

    Experimental short film directed by Ken Jacobs with music by diNMachine.

    Chrysalis
  • 2012
    Street Vendor

    Street Vendor

    Street Vendor

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

    Street Vendor
  • 2023
    Book of Eternalisms 8

    Book of Eternalisms 8

    Book of Eternalisms 8

    02023HD

    The eighth entry in Ken Jacobs Book of Eternalisms series.

    Book of Eternalisms 8
  • 2009
    Brain Operations

    Brain Operations

    Brain Operations

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    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...

    Brain Operations
  • 2023
    Tourists of the Familiar 1

    Tourists of the Familiar 1

    Tourists of the Familiar 1

    02023HD

    Part of a series of Eternalisms

    Tourists of the Familiar 1
  • 2020
    Rain Clouds

    Rain Clouds

    Rain Clouds

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    An Eternalism film.

    Rain Clouds
  • 1973
    Changing Azazel

    Changing Azazel

    Changing Azazel

    8.51973HD

    Home movie by Ken Jacobs. Black and white and silent.

    Changing Azazel
  • 2020
    Working Girls (short)

    Working Girls (short)

    Working Girls (short)

    02020HD

    An Eternalism film.

    Working Girls (short)
  • 2023
    Writhing City

    Writhing City

    Writhing City

    02023HD

    2023, 25:34, digital

    Writhing City
  • 1968
    Huge Pupils

    Huge Pupils

    Huge Pupils

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    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...

    Huge Pupils
  • 2020
    Sleeping American

    Sleeping American

    Sleeping American

    02020HD

    An Eternalism film.

    Sleeping American
  • 2019
    Figures I - V

    Figures I - V

    Figures I - V

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    Ken Jacobs' black and white abstract short from 2019, in five parts.

    Figures I - V
  • 2016
    Reichstag 9/11

    Reichstag 9/11

    Reichstag 9/11

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    Obvious as the facts may be, (and available on the web; tap in the expression Reichstag 9/11), we are all wonderfully free to “make up our own...

    Reichstag 9/11
  • 2020
    Reading Society

    Reading Society

    Reading Society

    02020HD

    An Eternalism film.

    Reading Society
  • 2012
    Blankets for Indians

    Blankets for Indians

    Blankets for Indians

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    Blankets for Indians blends a stereoscopic study of water spurting from New York’s City Hall fountain with an intimately detailed portrait of...

    Blankets for Indians
  • 2016
    Hydroelectric Dam

    Hydroelectric Dam

    Hydroelectric Dam

    02016HD

    A study in lunging waves, in 3D.

    Hydroelectric Dam
  • 2020
    Friendly Building

    Friendly Building

    Friendly Building

    02020HD

    An Eternalism film.

    Friendly Building
  • 2019
    Things to Come

    Things to Come

    Things to Come

    02019HD

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

    Things to Come