Ken Jacobs Movies

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

An Eternalism film.

One of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

Three identical prints of a single 100 foot fixed-camera take are shown from beginning to end-roll light-flare, with a few feet of blackness...

3D eternalism by Ken Jacobs

"Details of paintings by Joan Mitchell undergo Eternalizing. The process introduces emphatic flicker that helps create illusions of depth, even for a...

Keaton's One Week (1920) digitally embossed

A stereo-photo of an ocean wave slowly turns and churns. The hidden forces of Cinema conspire with an instant of history to produce actions that...

3D film by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Ken Jacobs at a Chinese restaurant.

Ken Jacobs’ most recent stroboscopic work transforms a typical New York street scaffolding scene into a mesmeric, Christo-esque merry-go-round.

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

Ken Jacobs applying a strobing effect to NYC trees.

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

An Eternalism film.

An eternalism.

Experimental short film. Silent.

An Eternalism film.