Ken Jacobs Movies

An unfinished 8mm film from 1964

Berlin documented by the US after WW2, recorded again in 1986 by Flo and Ken feigning innocence when passing by elevated train between Capitalist...

Freeview 3D film by Ken Jacobs

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

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

Blankets for Indians blends a stereoscopic study of water spurting from New York’s City Hall fountain with an intimately detailed portrait of...

Description by Ken Jacobs: A Spin Through Night City gets many visual elements spinning. Only daughter Nisi working at our computer knows how...

"Flat image (of snowbound suburban housing tract) blossoms into 3D only when viewer places Eye Opener before the right eye. (Keeping both eyes open,...

Part of a series of Eternalisms

The documentary’s starting point is the discovery and restoration of a rare and unknown photography reel reproduced from a mutoscope film, made...

3D film by Ken Jacobs

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

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

Ken Jacobs at a Chinese restaurant.

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

"One of the nice things about movies was you could keep them at a distance. Movies knew their place. We were dimensional, they were flat, so it was...

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An homage to Op-Art, Brain Operations was inspired by an optical illusion produced by checkered tiles on the artist's bathroom floor. "When editing...