Ken Jacobs Movies

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...

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Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925) digitally embossed

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

abstract short by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

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

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

A stereo-photo of an ocean wave slowly turns and churns. The hidden forces of Cinema conspire with an instant of history to produce actions that...

An Eternalism film.

A film by Ken Jacobs made in 8mm

Ken Jacobs at a Chinese restaurant.

Ken Jacobs writes: "The first two sections were shot around Jack's loft on Reade Street on two 100' 16 mm rolls. Sunday morning, following Saturday's...

Mountain ranges lighter than air.

The moving camera shapes the screen image with great purposefulness, using the frame of a window as fulcrum upon which to wheel about the exterior...

An Eternailsm 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.