Ken Jacobs Movies

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

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...

An eternalism film.

A sly take on recent US foreign policy in the Middle East, 3D footage of the exit from NYFF’s premiere of The Social Network makes for...

A film by Ken Jacobs made in 8mm

An anaglyph 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

An unfinished 8mm film from 1964

"Joys…began on the corner of Broadway and Spring but it was the next night waiting on Bleecker that it was understood a movie of sorts was...

Ken Jacobs short film

Film portrait of Naomi Levine by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

“‘FAIR AND WHITE’ is the name of a line of beauty parlors in Paris largely catering to an African-French clientele. No-one...

Studying painting with Hans Hofmann had sensitized me to depth phenomena, to strange readings of depth including the most unnatural: flat. In 1964, I...

First two-cycle Eternalism. Interesting for the contrast of movements and depth configurations but also in indicating an end to the display and...

A reworking of 10 seconds from Entrée d`une noce à l`église (Entrance of a wedding at the church), the 1896 Lumiere brothers...

Freeview 3D film by Ken Jacobs

One last ferry ride with the Jacobs family.

One of the most extraordinary personalities in the history of moving images, native New Yorker Ken Jacobs, and his wife and long-time creative...

A film by Ken Jacobs in his Amorous Interludes series

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