Ken Jacobs Movies

An Eternalism film.

Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

Jacobs documents a New York street vendor, taking a short interaction between the vendor and a customer and protracting it into a strobing,...

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

An Eternalism film.

In Capitalism: Slavery, Jacobs uses a Victorian stereograph (a double-photograph) of slaves picking cotton under the watchful eye of a white overseer...

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

Jacobs’s hypnotic “3-D” adaptation of New York 1911, a long-forgotten Swedish documentary restored by MoMA in 2017, is...

"Details of paintings by Joan Mitchell undergo Eternalizing. The process introduces emphatic flicker that helps create illusions of depth, even for a...

An Eternalism film.

First screened as part of Jacobs' "Nervous System" film performance, The Georgetown Loop is based on an archival film from 1903, which Jacobs pairs...

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An Eternalism film.

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

"fails to distinguish art from history." An eternalism film by Ken Jacobs.

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 Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

MM Serra and Jonas Mekas sign a paper in 3D.