Ken Jacobs Movies

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

An Eternalism film.

A study in lunging waves, in 3D.

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 Eternalism film.

Spasm (2023, 13:41, digital)

An Eternalism film.

"NISSAN ARIANA WINDOW is 3/4's of our daughter's name. She was just kid when these pictures were taken. Some were taken before she was born: pregnant...

An eternalism.

Obvious as the facts may be, (and available on the web; tap in the expression Reichstag 9/11), we are all wonderfully free to “make up our own...

An Eternalism film.

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

A book of eternalisms, structured the same as the Tourists of the Familiar series, with an emphasis on water.

A mostly silent (except for one 78 instrumental record played in the background of one sequence) experimental film centering around a stylized...

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

Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

One of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

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

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