Ken Jacobs Movies

Illusions of Depth in Flux

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

An Eternalism film.

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

Found footage film by Ken Jacobs of Pygmalion starring Leslie Howard with various digital glitches.

A study in lunging waves, in 3D.

Ken Jacobs applies three-dimensional digital animation to a century-old film by Edwin S. Porter.

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

Short film with Jack Smith as the mysterious leader of an even-more-mysterious cult, garbed in pseudo-papal regalia and adorned with jewelry and...

Here Jacobs revisits the original 1905 source material of his celebrated 1969 structuralist film, Tom Tom the Piper's Son. In his earlier film, a...

First screened as part of Jacobs' "Nervous System" film performance, The Georgetown Loop is based on an archival film from 1903, which Jacobs pairs...

Avant-garde master Ken Jacobs' dizzying digital reinvention of a 1903 Edison "actuality" stretches and bends the one-minute film to an incredible,...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternailsm 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

2023, 25:34, digital

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.