Ken Jacobs Movies

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

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...

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

An homage to Op-Art, Brain Operations was inspired by an optical illusion produced by checkered tiles on the artist's bathroom floor. "When editing...

An unfinished 8mm film from 1964

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

Part of his “Nervous System” performances, the artist’s skills as a projectionist were highlighted when he invented this specially...

A stroboscopic train ride along a jungle stream. Asian military men appear with their pith-helmets, keeping the ferns, trees, monkeys, natives in...

A 3D film by Ken Jacobs

A film by Ken Jacobs in his Amorous Interludes series

An Eternalism film.

Ken Jacobs applying a strobing effect to NYC trees.

An Eternalism film.

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...

Jacobs documents a New York street vendor, taking a short interaction between the vendor and a customer and protracting it into a strobing,...

MM Serra and Jonas Mekas sign a paper in 3D.

A film by Ken Jacobs made in 8mm

An Eternalism film.