Ken Jacobs Movies

A Ken Jacobs eternalism made using a dazzling iPhone panorama from James Otis.

2022, 12:43, digital. Drawing by Victor Tomofeev, "A Skater's City"

Assisted by Nisi Ariana, 24 minutes

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Digitally remixed elements from Ken Jacobs' 1960s film The Sky Socialist

World Premiere -- Museum of Moving Image 1/14/2017

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

"Flat image (of snowbound suburban housing tract) blossoms into 3D only when viewer places Eye Opener before the right eye. (Keeping both eyes open,...

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

An eternalism film.

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Directed by Ken Jacobs, 1985. In Jacobs' own words: "I wish more stuff was available in its raw state, as primary source material for anyone to...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

The moving camera shapes the screen image with great purposefulness, using the frame of a window as fulcrum upon which to wheel about the exterior...

Single fixed-camera take looking from within darkened room, (camera within a camera) out through fire-escape door into vertical space between rears...

3D Polaroid *Note: Must be viewed on 3D monitor with polaroid glasses Duration: 6'24 Year: 2015 Sound

Part of a series of Eternalisms

Berlin documented by the US after WW2, recorded again in 1986 by Flo and Ken feigning innocence when passing by elevated train between Capitalist...

Freeview 3D film by Ken Jacobs

A still image of a palm-lined wooden walkway is edited together with mirror-images, close-ups, upside-down renderings, and smaller, framed versions...