Ken Jacobs Movies

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

"One of the nice things about movies was you could keep them at a distance. Movies knew their place. We were dimensional, they were flat, so it was...

An Eternalism film.

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

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...

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

Our daughter Nisi and son Aza happened to both be staying at our loft on Chambers Street when fundamentalist Islam struck. A friend observing the...

Made in response to the death of his friends Bob Fleischner and Jack Smith, who died within one week of each other in 1989, this feature includes...

Ken and Flo Jacobs walk from an MTA bus to their apartment in the icy rain. This is transformed by a 360° camera and digital effects into an...

An Eternalism film.

A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

An unfinished 3D film using the Pulfrich filter. "We travel by train through the mountains of central and northern Italy, 3-D country; the Alps,...

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...

Found Footage avantgarde film.

3D Eternalism by Ken Jacobs

Avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs presents Buster Keaton's short silent comedy Cops (1922) as his own work by blacking-out approximately the top...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

A film by Ken Jacobs in his Amorous Interludes series

Ken Jacobs writes: "The first two sections were shot around Jack's loft on Reade Street on two 100' 16 mm rolls. Sunday morning, following Saturday's...