Ken Jacobs Movies

Writes Ken Jacobs: "Louis-Aimé-Augustin Le Prince was the first person to create, in 1885, a single recording apparatus that photographed...

Anaglyph 3D film by Ken Jacobs based on a 1974 shadow play performance.

This work is a demonstration of one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use...

Part of a series of Eternalisms

An anthology of one-minute films created by 51 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was...

“All hallucinations of Paradise Lost come from the longing to levitate. Vision is lightship and shipwreck - Herbert Postl from Ideal Forms of...

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

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

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.

In NERVOUS KEN, experimental film legend Ken Jacobs is "interviewed" by my urbane 12-year old M.C., Emma Bernstein. Envisioning an exploration of the...

"Hidden in a movie shot is an infinity of monsters. Pause and they show themselves (at their worst in 3D)." - Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

Ken Jacobs applying a strobing effect to NYC trees.

Using the same stereoscopic animation technique of Jacobs' recent works Capitalism: Slavery (2006) and Nymph (2007), which he calls "a vigorous 3-D...

A 2021 Jacobs Eternalism

Shot in Provincetown in the summer of '61 with the goal of funding a larger project, the film was never completed due to a violent argument between...

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

Sequel to Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway

An Eternalism film.