Ken Jacobs Movies

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

In this short and beautiful piece, Jacobs creates a flicker effect by editing close-up footage of a stream together with sections of black, producing...

One of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

One of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

An Eternalism film.

This work is a demonstration of one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use...

Jack Smith descends a fire escape in a makeshift "Arabian" costume and improvises increasingly frenetic choreography.

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

An Eternalism film.

Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

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

An Eternalism film.

Description by Ken Jacobs: Along the Elevated is an expanse of city architecture in delicious depth (depth is not only what things exist in, its ins...

Ken Jacobs film on Rodney King and the LA Riots utilizing Pulfrich 3-D, in which a single dark filter is placed before one eye.

Illusions of Depth in Flux

Short film by Ken Jacobs later included in his compilation The Whirled.

Filmed by Stella Weiss and family, chance-assembled from uncut 100-foot film-rolls. Sound precedes and follows silent image (40 minutes of image plus...

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

Jacobs's 1st Window is a dazzling balletic breaking-up of the cinematic frame.