Ken Jacobs Movies

A celebration of Ken Jacobs' work at 80WSE.

A strobing deconstruction of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight.

Features two old men talking on the Lower East Side; one loud mouth, the other bizarrely amiable, in 3D.

"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...

A picturing of sound in 3D.

Jacobs documents the work of artist Ronald Gonzalez in his Binghamton, NY home and studio space. Producing more of an abstract portrait than a...

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

This work is a demonstration of one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Ken Jacobs applying a strobing effect to NYC trees.

Studying painting with Hans Hofmann had sensitized me to depth phenomena, to strange readings of depth including the most unnatural: flat. In 1964, I...

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

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 Eternalism film.

Ken Jacobs describes Bob Fleischner Dying: "Bob allows his sick and fading image to be caught in stereo photography. A man of mystery, so banal in...

3D Polaroid *Note: Must be viewed on 3D monitor with polaroid glasses Duration: 6'24 Year: 2015 Sound

Three identical prints of a single 100 foot fixed-camera take are shown from beginning to end-roll light-flare, with a few feet of blackness...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

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...