Ken Jacobs Movies

A wholesome moment: Jonas Mekas, MM Serra, Ken Jacobs, and Flo Jacobs take lavender from a stranger's bush.

Description by Ken Jacobs: Along the Elevated is an expanse of city architecture in delicious depth (depth is not only what things exist in, its ins...

Ken Jacobs applying a strobing effect to NYC trees.

In Capitalism: Slavery, Jacobs uses a Victorian stereograph (a double-photograph) of slaves picking cotton under the watchful eye of a white overseer...

Ken Jacobs short film eventually incorporated into The Sky Socialist.

Obvious as the facts may be, (and available on the web; tap in the expression Reichstag 9/11), we are all wonderfully free to “make up our own...

"3D is rather a slighting way to speak of deep space. I enjoyed AVATAR and HUGO, though not much else among the movies I’ve seen in illusionary...

An Eternalism film.

Ken Jacobs describes Bob Fleischner Dying: "Bob allows his sick and fading image to be caught in stereo photography. A man of mystery, so banal in...

A stroboscopic train ride along a jungle stream. Asian military men appear with their pith-helmets, keeping the ferns, trees, monkeys, natives in...

Co-made with Nisi Ariana

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

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

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

Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925) digitally embossed

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

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

"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...

Experimental short film directed by Ken Jacobs with music by diNMachine.

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs