Ken Jacobs Movies

Ken Jacobs describes Bob Fleischner Dying: "Bob allows his sick and fading image to be caught in stereo photography. A man of mystery, so banal in...

"Waiting, waiting, for a bus to carry us a mile downtown. We often give up and walk. When we commit ourselves to waiting the bus usually appears with...

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

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

A reworking of 10 seconds from Entrée d`une noce à l`église (Entrance of a wedding at the church), the 1896 Lumiere brothers...

In celebration of his 80th birthday, here is: THE ETERNAL COURTSHIP (an ipad short) For Ken and Flo Jacobs, with love and affection from all of us...

Jacobs documents the work of artist Ronald Gonzalez in his Binghamton, NY home and studio space. Producing more of an abstract portrait than a...

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

An homage to Op-Art, Brain Operations was inspired by an optical illusion produced by checkered tiles on the artist's bathroom floor. "When editing...

The diamond patterns in the wire fencing for construction on his street inspired Ken Jacobs’s latest astonishing 3-D extravaganza.

Ken Jacobs applies his patented Eternalism process to 3D images he took of Jackson Pollock's 1954 splatter painting.

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...

This event was part of Arika’s Kill Your Timid Notion festival in 2007 at Dundee Contemporary Arts.

A digital animation of a Victorian stereoscopic photograph of a 19th-century factory floor, crowded with machinery and child workers. Filmmaker Ken...

Part of a series of Eternalisms

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

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

A young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by.