Ken Jacobs Movies

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

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Ken Jacobs applying a strobing effect to NYC trees.

"NISSAN ARIANA WINDOW is 3/4's of our daughter's name. She was just kid when these pictures were taken. Some were taken before she was born: pregnant...

An Eternalism film.

3D Eternalism by Ken Jacobs

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...

In Capitalism: Slavery, Jacobs uses a Victorian stereograph (a double-photograph) of slaves picking cotton under the watchful eye of a white overseer...

First created and presented as a Tzadik New Jewish Culture offering in 1993. First performed live as a Nervous System performance with Catherine...

Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

Filmed by Stella Weiss and family, chance-assembled from uncut 100-foot film-rolls. Sound precedes and follows silent image (40 minutes of image plus...

An Eternalism film.

Jacobs's 1st Window is a dazzling balletic breaking-up of the cinematic frame.

A Tom Tom Chaser is Jacobs' 2002 poetic riff on the transformation of his classic film Tom Tom the Piper's Son from chemical to electronic form...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.