Ken Jacobs Movies

Directed by Ken Jacobs, 1985. In Jacobs' own words: "I wish more stuff was available in its raw state, as primary source material for anyone to...

Co-made with Nisi Ariana

The moving camera shapes the screen image with great purposefulness, using the frame of a window as fulcrum upon which to wheel about the exterior...

Berlin documented by the US after WW2, recorded again in 1986 by Flo and Ken feigning innocence when passing by elevated train between Capitalist...

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

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Film portrait of Naomi Levine by Ken Jacobs

An experimental feature made by rephotographing the 1905 Biograph short Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son.

This is how the film begins, duck-on-a-leash to Little Bo Peep to the revealing of the too-busy full stage-set. Each gets their close-up and the many...

Ken Jacobs applies his patented Eternalism process to 3D images he took of Jackson Pollock's 1954 splatter painting.

2022, 12:43, digital. Drawing by Victor Tomofeev, "A Skater's City"

Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

An anaglyph 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

A multi-part series of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

Part of a series of Eternalisms

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Ken Jacobs applies three-dimensional digital animation to a century-old film by Edwin S. Porter.

An Eternalism film.

The Nervous Magic Lantern is a projection device I came up with in the year 2000. With assistance from wife Flo (Florence) we have been performing...