Ken Jacobs Movies

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.

This work is derived from one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use neither film...

This work is derived from one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use neither film...

The Roses is a meditation on art, aging, and the nature of listening, as well a conversation between generations and between artists. The anaglyph...

Ken Jacobs at a Chinese restaurant.

An experiment in 3D abetted by a Pulfrich filter, originally theorized in the 1920s. Features water cinematography by Phil Solomon.

An Eternalism film.

1906 - Original cinematographer unknown. 1996 - New arrangement by Ken Jacobs. Shots shown as found in "A Trip Down Mount Tamalpais", the Paper Print...

One last ferry ride with the Jacobs family.

Ken Jacobs’s most elusive and mysterious film is at once an allegory of movie-making, a demonstration of 8mm versatility, and a celebration of...

"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...

An Eternalism film.

No description from the artist.

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

In this short and beautiful piece, Jacobs creates a flicker effect by editing close-up footage of a stream together with sections of black, producing...

Black and white evokes nostalgia for The Great Depression. Things were so cheap, including lives. We see daredevils (desperate people) compete for...

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...

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

An Eternalism film.

Using the same stereoscopic animation technique of Jacobs' recent works Capitalism: Slavery (2006) and Nymph (2007), which he calls "a vigorous 3-D...