Movies

Digitally remixed elements from Ken Jacobs' 1960s film The Sky Socialist

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

Early 20th-century street vendors push their carts loaded with vegetables. It is time for them to go. Little by little, the viewer discovers...

This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

A stereograph of an ocean wave breaking is suspended in time as it reshapes in time and in depth. 3-D for both two eyed and single-eyed viewers.

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...

“All hallucinations of Paradise Lost come from the longing to levitate. Vision is lightship and shipwreck - Herbert Postl from Ideal Forms of...

A picturing of sound in 3D.

Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

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

Spasm (2023, 13:41, digital)

An Eternalism film.

An anaglyph 3-D 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,...

Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

2021, 6:23, digital. Part of the Nervous Magic Lantern films.

Part of a series of Eternalisms

'Blinking' 2D rendition of one of Ken Jacobs' Nervous System performances first presented in 1994.

An Eternalism film.