Ken Jacobs Movies

Using the same stereoscopic animation technique of Jacobs' recent works Capitalism: Slavery (2006) and Nymph (2007), which he calls "a vigorous 3-D...

Jack Smith descends a fire escape in a makeshift "Arabian" costume and improvises increasingly frenetic choreography.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

One of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

2023, 25:34, digital

A study in lunging waves, in 3D.

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...

Freeview 3D film by Ken Jacobs

Description by Ken Jacobs: Along the Elevated is an expanse of city architecture in delicious depth (depth is not only what things exist in, its ins...

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

Silent film by Ken Jacobs featuring his son asleep at the table then being put to bed.

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

Ken Jacobs applying a strobing effect to NYC trees.

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...

An 8mm film by Ken Jacobs made after his 16mm camera was stolen

abstract short by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

"The editing procedure was to count the number of shots and start the film off with the numerically middle shot and then, after that, the shot that...

40 minute 3D work.

“All hallucinations of Paradise Lost come from the longing to levitate. Vision is lightship and shipwreck - Herbert Postl from Ideal Forms of...