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...

“The film said something necessary at the time: the numinous is everywhere, even upstate Rust Belt Binghamton. The light was perfect, students...

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

Music composition by Harrison Birtwistle, 1971 tape realized by Peter Zinovieff. Nervous Magic Lantern performance by Ken jacobs, 1990.

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

An Eternalism film.

abstract short by Ken Jacobs

Keaton's One Week (1920) digitally embossed

Short film by Ken Jacobs later included in his compilation The Whirled.

One of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

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

Ken Jacobs at a Chinese restaurant.

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

An Eternailsm 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

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

Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925) digitally embossed

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.