Ken Jacobs Movies

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...

First two-cycle Eternalism. Interesting for the contrast of movements and depth configurations but also in indicating an end to the display and...

Part of his “Nervous System” performances, the artist’s skills as a projectionist were highlighted when he invented this specially...

This event was part of Arika’s Kill Your Timid Notion festival in 2007 at Dundee Contemporary Arts.

Writes Ken Jacobs: "Louis-Aimé-Augustin Le Prince was the first person to create, in 1885, a single recording apparatus that photographed...

Mountain ranges lighter than air.

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

Silent film by Ken Jacobs featuring his son asleep at the table then being put to bed.

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

Found footage film by Ken Jacobs of Pygmalion starring Leslie Howard with various digital glitches.

One of Ken Jacobs' Amorous Interludes

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

Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

40 minute 3D work.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An homage to Op-Art, Brain Operations was inspired by an optical illusion produced by checkered tiles on the artist's bathroom floor. "When editing...

An 8mm film by Ken Jacobs made after his 16mm camera was stolen

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

Ken Jacobs writes: "The first two sections were shot around Jack's loft on Reade Street on two 100' 16 mm rolls. Sunday morning, following Saturday's...