Ken Jacobs Movies

An Eternalism film.

A multi-part series of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

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

An Eternalism film.

Abstract avantgarde film.

Jacobs's 1st Window is a dazzling balletic breaking-up of the cinematic frame.

A 2023 Ken Jacobs Eternalism

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

First created and presented as a Tzadik New Jewish Culture offering in 1993. First performed live as a Nervous System performance with Catherine...

Here Jacobs revisits the original 1905 source material of his celebrated 1969 structuralist film, Tom Tom the Piper's Son. In his earlier film, a...

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

Still shots of a revolving door at New York City's Church Street Station Post Office are edited together to create a sense of movement, redoubled by...

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

Anaglyph 3D film by Ken Jacobs based on a 1974 shadow play performance.

A short by Ken Jacobs. Taormina, Sicily; Mt. Etna erupting nearby.

Film by Ken Jacobs. Exists as both 2D and 3D Version

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

An Eternalism film.

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...