Ken Jacobs Movies

The Roses is a meditation on art, aging, and the nature of listening, as well a conversation between generations and between artists. The anaglyph...

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

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

First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...

Description by Ken Jacobs: Along the Elevated is an expanse of city architecture in delicious depth (depth is not only what things exist in, its ins...

An Eternalism film.

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...

2022, 12:43, digital. Drawing by Victor Tomofeev, "A Skater's City"

One of Ken Jacobs' Amorous Interludes

An Eternalism film.

A stereograph of an ocean wave breaking is suspended in time as it reshapes in time and in depth. 3-D for both two eyed and single-eyed viewers.

"Details of paintings by Joan Mitchell undergo Eternalizing. The process introduces emphatic flicker that helps create illusions of depth, even for a...

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...

An experimental feature made by rephotographing the 1905 Biograph short Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son.

An Eternalism film.

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

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

An unfinished 8mm film from 1964

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

This work is derived from one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use neither film...