Ken Jacobs Movies

Illusions of Depth in Flux

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

An Eternalism film.

A strobing deconstruction of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight.

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

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

"3D is rather a slighting way to speak of deep space. I enjoyed AVATAR and HUGO, though not much else among the movies I’ve seen in illusionary...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

In this short and beautiful piece, Jacobs creates a flicker effect by editing close-up footage of a stream together with sections of black, producing...

Freeview 3D film by Ken Jacobs

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

An Eternalism film.

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...

A study in lunging waves, in 3D.

Stereograph of the crowd at the opening of the US Centennial Exposition of 1893. It turns into a movie. Into an enormous rugged and craggy 3-D...

This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology’s voicemail system...

"2013. USA. Directed by Ken Jacobs. With technical assistance by Nisi Jacobs. Part two of four. “Joys…began on the corner of Broadway...

Part of a series of Eternalisms

Film portrait of Naomi Levine by Ken Jacobs