Movies

World Premiere -- Museum of Moving Image 1/14/2017

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

A multi-part series of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

Silent film by Ken Jacobs featuring his son asleep at the table then being put to bed.

"Influenced by avant-garde artist-refugees from Europe, non-representational art dominated the art market after WW2 [...] Viewers offered open minds,...

"2013. USA. Directed by Ken Jacobs. With technical assistance by Nisi Jacobs. Part two of four. “Joys…began on the corner of Broadway...

An Eternalism film.

Part of a series of Eternalisms

A 2023 Ken Jacobs Eternalism

"The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my...

Assisted by Nisi Ariana, 24 minutes

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...

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

Ken Jacobs applies his patented Eternalism process to 3D images he took of Jackson Pollock's 1954 splatter painting.

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...

A 2023 Ken Jacobs Eternalism

"3D is rather a slighting way to speak of deep space. I enjoyed AVATAR and HUGO, though not much else among the movies I’ve seen in illusionary...

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...

Description by Ken Jacobs: Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl is the fourth in a series of shorts (Popeye Sees 3D; Pappy Sees 3D, Too; Sweepea’s...