Ken Jacobs Movies

This work is derived from one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use neither film...

An eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

A Ken Jacobs eternalism made using a dazzling iPhone panorama from James Otis.

Fall into winter 1964, Urban Renewal forced us to move a few blocks to West of Broadway. Our Sky Socialist ‘set’ is still standing and...

Freeview 3D film by Ken Jacobs

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

Ken Jacobs applies his patented Eternalism process to 3D images he took of Jackson Pollock's 1954 splatter painting.

Jacobs applies his exacting digital techniques to footage of his New York City working and living space.

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

Filmed by Stella Weiss and family, chance-assembled from uncut 100-foot film-rolls. Sound precedes and follows silent image (40 minutes of image plus...

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

2021, 6:23, digital. Part of the Nervous Magic Lantern films.

One last ferry ride with the Jacobs family.

Abstract avantgarde film.

A mostly silent (except for one 78 instrumental record played in the background of one sequence) experimental film centering around a stylized...

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

The diamond patterns in the wire fencing for construction on his street inspired Ken Jacobs’s latest astonishing 3-D extravaganza.

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs