Ken Jacobs Movies

Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

An Eternalism film.

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 unfinished 3D film using the Pulfrich filter. "We travel by train through the mountains of central and northern Italy, 3-D country; the Alps,...

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

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Part of a series of Eternalisms

An Eternalism film.

Anaglyph 3D film by Ken Jacobs based on a 1974 shadow play performance.

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...

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

Features two old men talking on the Lower East Side; one loud mouth, the other bizarrely amiable, in 3D.

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

An Eternalism film.

Made in response to the death of his friends Bob Fleischner and Jack Smith, who died within one week of each other in 1989, this feature includes...

2021, 1 minute 58 seconds, digital.

Blankets for Indians blends a stereoscopic study of water spurting from New York’s City Hall fountain with an intimately detailed portrait of...

Here Jacobs revisits the original 1905 source material of his celebrated 1969 structuralist film, Tom Tom the Piper's Son. In his earlier film, a...

An Eternalism film.