Ken Jacobs Movies

The Roses is a meditation on art, aging, and the nature of listening, as well a conversation between generations and between artists. The anaglyph...

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

Ken Jacobs applies three-dimensional digital animation to a century-old film by Edwin S. Porter.

“The film said something necessary at the time: the numinous is everywhere, even upstate Rust Belt Binghamton. The light was perfect, students...

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

An Eternalism film.

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

Jacobs documents the work of artist Ronald Gonzalez in his Binghamton, NY home and studio space. Producing more of an abstract portrait than a...

Part of a series of Eternalisms

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

2022, assisted by Antoine Catala

An Eternalism film.

Features two old men talking on the Lower East Side; one loud mouth, the other bizarrely amiable, in 3D.

Using the same stereoscopic animation technique of Jacobs' recent works Capitalism: Slavery (2006) and Nymph (2007), which he calls "a vigorous 3-D...

An unfinished 3D film using the Pulfrich filter. "We travel by train through the mountains of central and northern Italy, 3-D country; the Alps,...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

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...