Ken Jacobs Movies

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Ken Jacobs’s most elusive and mysterious film is at once an allegory of movie-making, a demonstration of 8mm versatility, and a celebration of...

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

Co-made with Nisi Ariana

A train passes though a tunnel and hurtles on to a station. Time and space are toyed with, things enter an impossible state of ongoing movement while...

Anaglyph 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

Stereograph of the crowd at the opening of the US Centennial Exposition of 1893. It turns into a movie. Into an enormous rugged and craggy 3-D...

"Hidden in a movie shot is an infinity of monsters. Pause and they show themselves (at their worst in 3D)." - Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

This is how the film begins, duck-on-a-leash to Little Bo Peep to the revealing of the too-busy full stage-set. Each gets their close-up and the many...

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...

An Eternalism film.

An anaglyph 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

Features two old men talking on the Lower East Side; one loud mouth, the other bizarrely amiable, in 3D.

Existing home movie titled and placed into distribution by Jacobs without intervention.

Ken Jacobs applies three-dimensional digital animation to a century-old film by Edwin S. Porter.

Part of a series of Eternalisms

Short visit to Zuccotti Park. Flo and I walk along Broadway and meet no less that 50,000 people turning onto Broadway at Chambers Street. The event...

"Flat image (of snowbound suburban housing tract) blossoms into 3D only when viewer places Eye Opener before the right eye. (Keeping both eyes open,...