Ken Jacobs Movies

3D Polaroid *Note: Must be viewed on 3D monitor with polaroid glasses Duration: 9' Year: 2015 Sound

Keaton's One Week (1920) digitally embossed

One of Ken Jacobs' eternalism films that explores themes of environmental destruction and capitalist greed through a 3D, suspended-time, stereoscopic...

Part of a series of Eternalisms

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...

Ken Jacobs short film eventually incorporated into The Sky Socialist.

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...

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Premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on August 5, 2021.

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

Avant-garde master Ken Jacobs' dizzying digital reinvention of a 1903 Edison "actuality" stretches and bends the one-minute film to an incredible,...

"Waiting, waiting, for a bus to carry us a mile downtown. We often give up and walk. When we commit ourselves to waiting the bus usually appears with...

An Eternalism film.

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...

A Ken Jacobs eternalism made using a dazzling iPhone panorama from James Otis.

An Eternalism film.

Using the same stereoscopic animation technique of Jacobs' recent works Capitalism: Slavery (2006) and Nymph (2007), which he calls "a vigorous 3-D...

Co-made with Nisi Ariana

Dir. Ken Jacobs. 2025, 48 mins. U.S. Digital. This colorful and cubist record of a Chinatown haircut is the final long-form work by the great...

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