Ken Jacobs Movies

  • 2020
    Movie That Invites Pausing

    Movie That Invites Pausing

    Movie That Invites Pausing

    02020HD

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

    Movie That Invites Pausing
  • 2013
    Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #2

    Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #2

    Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #2

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    "2013. USA. Directed by Ken Jacobs. With technical assistance by Nisi Jacobs. Part two of four. “Joys…began on the corner of Broadway...

    Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #2
  • 2020
    Flowers and Bike

    Flowers and Bike

    Flowers and Bike

    02020HD

    An Eternalism film.

    Flowers and Bike
  • 1968
    Huge Pupils

    Huge Pupils

    Huge Pupils

    01968HD

    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
  • 2005
    Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise

    Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise

    Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise

    5.92005HD

    A story told by director Ken Jacobs but without conventional storyline. Using a modified magic lantern, an early type of image projector developed in...

    Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise
  • 2009
    Walkway

    Walkway

    Walkway

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    A still image of a palm-lined wooden walkway is edited together with mirror-images, close-ups, upside-down renderings, and smaller, framed versions...

    Walkway
  • 2022
    When Timofeev Moves Everything Moves

    When Timofeev Moves Everything Moves

    When Timofeev Moves Everything Moves

    02022HD

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

    When Timofeev Moves Everything Moves
  • 2020
    Broadway Building

    Broadway Building

    Broadway Building

    02020HD

    An Eternalism film.

    Broadway Building
  • 2019
    Failure

    Failure

    Failure

    02019HD

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

    Failure
  • 2022
    Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages

    Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages

    Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages

    02022HD

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

    Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
  • 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
  • 2023
    Book of Eternalisms 1-6

    Book of Eternalisms 1-6

    Book of Eternalisms 1-6

    02023HD

    A multi-part series of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

    Book of Eternalisms 1-6
  • 2007
    The Whirled

    The Whirled

    The Whirled

    02007HD

    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...

    The Whirled
  • 1975
    Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture

    Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture

    Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture

    01975HD

    In the backyard with the inimitable Jerry Sims. Shot in 8mm in 1975, edited and transferred to 16mm in 1987.

    Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture
  • 2021
    Eternal Beach

    Eternal Beach

    Eternal Beach

    02021HD

    “All hallucinations of Paradise Lost come from the longing to levitate. Vision is lightship and shipwreck - Herbert Postl from Ideal Forms of...

    Eternal Beach
  • 2022
    Buster Keaton Embossed

    Buster Keaton Embossed

    Buster Keaton Embossed

    02022HD

    Keaton's One Week (1920) digitally embossed

    Buster Keaton Embossed
  • 2002
    Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence

    Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence

    Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence

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    Our daughter Nisi and son Aza happened to both be staying at our loft on Chambers Street when fundamentalist Islam struck. A friend observing the...

    Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence
  • 2023
    From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight

    From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight

    From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight

    02023HD

    A strobing deconstruction of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight.

    From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
  • 2007
    Titles

    Titles

    Titles

    12007HD

    A film by Ken Jacobs in his Amorous Interludes series

    Titles
  • 2023
    Tourists of the Familiar 15

    Tourists of the Familiar 15

    Tourists of the Familiar 15

    02023HD

    Part of a series of Eternalisms

    Tourists of the Familiar 15