Ken Jacobs Movies

An unfinished 8mm film from 1964

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.

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

A digital animation of a Victorian stereoscopic photograph of a 19th-century factory floor, crowded with machinery and child workers. Filmmaker Ken...

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...

"Joys…began on the corner of Broadway and Spring but it was the next night waiting on Bleecker that it was understood a movie of sorts was...

40 minute 3D work.

First screened as part of Jacobs' "Nervous System" film performance, The Georgetown Loop is based on an archival film from 1903, which Jacobs pairs...

Keaton's One Week (1920) digitally embossed

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

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

An anaglyph 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology’s voicemail system...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Film portrait of Naomi Levine by Ken Jacobs

A young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by.