Ken Jacobs Movies

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.

An Eternalism film.

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

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

An Eternalism film.

Film by Ken Jacobs. Exists as both 2D and 3D Version

Mountain ranges lighter than air.

"fails to distinguish art from history." An eternalism film by Ken Jacobs.

Premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on August 5, 2021.

An Eternalism film.

"Details of paintings by Joan Mitchell undergo Eternalizing. The process introduces emphatic flicker that helps create illusions of depth, even for a...

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

A 3D film by Ken Jacobs

Shot in 1959, Scotch Tape is Jack Smith's first film -- a joyous, three-minute romp, in color, using Peter Duchin's rhumba "Carinhoso" for its...

A film by Ken Jacobs in his Amorous Interludes series

40 minute 3D work.

An Eternalism film.

"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...

Ken Jacobs' black and white abstract short from 2019, in five parts.

An Eternalism film.