Ken Jacobs Movies

"Hidden in a movie shot is an infinity of monsters. Pause and they show themselves (at their worst in 3D)." - Ken Jacobs

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

Ken Jacobs' seventh Book of Eternalisms.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

The moving camera shapes the screen image with great purposefulness, using the frame of a window as fulcrum upon which to wheel about the exterior...

Part of a series of Eternalisms

An Eternalism film.

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

Part of a series of Eternalisms

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

An Eternalism film.

3D Eternalism by Ken Jacobs

40 minute 3D work.

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

Henry Hills’s Emma’s Dilemma reinvents the portrait for the age of digital reproduction. In a set of tour-de-force probes into the images...

An Eternalism film.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

A stereograph of an ocean wave breaking is suspended in time as it reshapes in time and in depth. 3-D for both two eyed and single-eyed viewers.

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

"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...