Ken Jacobs Movies

An Eternalism film.

An eternalism.

An Eternalism film.

Music composition by Harrison Birtwistle, 1971 tape realized by Peter Zinovieff. Nervous Magic Lantern performance by Ken jacobs, 1990.

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...

Ken Jacobs at a Chinese restaurant.

An Eternalism film.

Jacobs’s hypnotic “3-D” adaptation of New York 1911, a long-forgotten Swedish documentary restored by MoMA in 2017, is...

2021, 6:23, digital. Part of the Nervous Magic Lantern films.

Avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs presents Buster Keaton's short silent comedy Cops (1922) as his own work by blacking-out approximately the top...

Abstract avantgarde film.

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

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

A stereograph of an ocean wave breaking is suspended in time as it reshapes in time and in depth. 3-D for both two eyed and single-eyed viewers.

3D Polaroid *Note: Must be viewed on 3D monitor with polaroid glasses Duration: 9' Year: 2015 Sound

One of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925) digitally embossed

3D film by Ken Jacobs

"fails to distinguish art from history." An eternalism film by Ken Jacobs.