Ken Jacobs Movies

An Eternalism film.

Keaton's One Week (1920) digitally embossed

An Eternalism film.

Ken Jacobs film on Rodney King and the LA Riots utilizing Pulfrich 3-D, in which a single dark filter is placed before one eye.

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

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

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

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

Illusions of Depth in Flux

Found Footage avantgarde film.

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

Ken Jacobs applying a strobing effect to NYC trees.

A digital animation of a Victorian stereoscopic photograph of a 19th-century factory floor, crowded with machinery and child workers. Filmmaker Ken...

abstract short by Ken Jacobs

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

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

Music composition by Harrison Birtwistle, 1971 tape realized by Peter Zinovieff. Nervous Magic Lantern performance by Ken jacobs, 1990.

Co-made with Nisi Ariana

Ken Jacobs at a Chinese restaurant.

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...