Ken Jacobs Movies

In this short and beautiful piece, Jacobs creates a flicker effect by editing close-up footage of a stream together with sections of black, producing...

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

Abstract avantgarde film.

A multi-part series of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

Ken Jacobs applying a strobing effect to NYC trees.

The Roses is a meditation on art, aging, and the nature of listening, as well a conversation between generations and between artists. The anaglyph...

An Eternalism film.

2023, 25:34, digital

Part of a series of Eternalisms

Illusions of Depth in Flux

This is how the film begins, duck-on-a-leash to Little Bo Peep to the revealing of the too-busy full stage-set. Each gets their close-up and the many...

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

Single fixed-camera take looking from within darkened room, (camera within a camera) out through fire-escape door into vertical space between rears...

An Eternalism film.

Early 20th-century street vendors push their carts loaded with vegetables. It is time for them to go. Little by little, the viewer discovers...

3D Polaroid *Note: Must be viewed on 3D monitor with polaroid glasses Duration: 6'24 Year: 2015 Sound

An Eternalism film.

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...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.