Ken Jacobs Movies

Avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs presents Buster Keaton's short silent comedy Cops (1922) as his own work by blacking-out approximately the top...

Illusions of Depth in Flux

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

An Eternalism film.

Keaton's One Week (1920) digitally embossed

"One of the nice things about movies was you could keep them at a distance. Movies knew their place. We were dimensional, they were flat, so it was...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

One of Ken Jacobs' Amorous Interludes

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...

Mountain ranges lighter than air.

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

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...

Co-made with Nisi Ariana

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

A 3D film by Ken Jacobs

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.

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

Jacobs applies his exacting digital techniques to footage of his New York City working and living space.