Ken Jacobs Movies

Keaton's One Week (1920) digitally embossed

Abstract short in Jacob's current 3D style.

An Eternalism film.

An eternalism.

Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925) digitally embossed

An Eternalism film.

Directed by Ken Jacobs, 1985. In Jacobs' own words: "I wish more stuff was available in its raw state, as primary source material for anyone to...

Home movie by Ken Jacobs. Black and white and silent.

Single fixed-camera take looking from within darkened room, (camera within a camera) out through fire-escape door into vertical space between rears...

This work is derived from one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use neither film...

Found footage film by Ken Jacobs of Pygmalion starring Leslie Howard with various digital glitches.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An experiment in 3D abetted by a Pulfrich filter, originally theorized in the 1920s. Features water cinematography by Phil Solomon.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

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

Experimental short film.

"One that creates a macabre dance by animating his own drawings." - Steve Anker

A digital animation of a Victorian stereoscopic photograph of a 19th-century factory floor, crowded with machinery and child workers. Filmmaker Ken...