Ken Jacobs Movies

2016
Ken Jacobs / JG Thirlwell @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
Ken Jacobs / JG Thirlwell @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
02016HD
"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"
2020
Facade with Face
Facade with Face
02020HD
An Eternalism film.
2023
Spasm
Spasm
02023HD
Spasm (2023, 13:41, digital)
2023
Writhing City
Writhing City
02023HD
2023, 25:34, digital
2003
Nervous Ken
Nervous Ken
02003HD
In NERVOUS KEN, experimental film legend Ken Jacobs is "interviewed" by my urbane 12-year old M.C., Emma Bernstein. Envisioning an exploration of the...
2020
Friendly Building
Friendly Building
02020HD
An Eternalism film.
2011
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
02011HD
A young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by.
2010
A Loft
A Loft
102010HD
Jacobs applies his exacting digital techniques to footage of his New York City working and living space.
2020
Broadway Building
Broadway Building
02020HD
An Eternalism film.
2020
Chinese New Years II
Chinese New Years II
02020HD
An Eternalism film.
2019
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
02019HD
"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs
2016
Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
02016HD
"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"
2020
Another Day in Days of Yore
Another Day in Days of Yore
02020HD
An Eternalism film.
2019
Above the Rain
Above the Rain
02019HD
Mountain ranges lighter than air.
2021
Double Wow
Double Wow
02021HD
40 minute 3D work.
2020
Natural Collage
Natural Collage
02020HD
An Eternalism film.
1996
Disorient Express
Disorient Express
01996HD
1906 - Original cinematographer unknown. 1996 - New arrangement by Ken Jacobs. Shots shown as found in "A Trip Down Mount Tamalpais", the Paper Print...
1999
New York Street Trolleys 1900
New York Street Trolleys 1900
01999HD
In this unique document, Jacobs demonstrates one of his live, multi-projection "Nervous System" film performances in real time. (The Nervous System...
2019
Chaos Is Order Misunderstood
Chaos Is Order Misunderstood
02019HD
The Nervous Magic Lantern is a projection device I came up with in the year 2000. With assistance from wife Flo (Florence) we have been performing...
2012
Emma's Dilemma
Emma's Dilemma
12012HD
Henry Hills’s Emma’s Dilemma reinvents the portrait for the age of digital reproduction. In a set of tour-de-force probes into the images...