Ken Jacobs Movies

3D eternalism by Ken Jacobs

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Dir. Ken Jacobs. 2025, 48 mins. U.S. Digital. This colorful and cubist record of a Chinatown haircut is the final long-form work by the great...

Ken Jacobs short film

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

Black and white evokes nostalgia for The Great Depression. Things were so cheap, including lives. We see daredevils (desperate people) compete for...

An eternalism.

An Eternalism film.

Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

First two-cycle Eternalism. Interesting for the contrast of movements and depth configurations but also in indicating an end to the display and...

"One that creates a macabre dance by animating his own drawings." - Steve Anker

One last ferry ride with the Jacobs family.

An Eternalism film.

Ken Jacobs film on Rodney King and the LA Riots utilizing Pulfrich 3-D, in which a single dark filter is placed before one eye.

An Eternailsm 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

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...

Avant-garde master Ken Jacobs' dizzying digital reinvention of a 1903 Edison "actuality" stretches and bends the one-minute film to an incredible,...

"3D is rather a slighting way to speak of deep space. I enjoyed AVATAR and HUGO, though not much else among the movies I’ve seen in illusionary...

An Eternalism film.

Short film by Ken Jacobs later included in his compilation The Whirled.