Ken Jacobs Movies

An Eternalism film.

3D film by Ken Jacobs

Jack Smith descends a fire escape in a makeshift "Arabian" costume and improvises increasingly frenetic choreography.

An Eternalism film.

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

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

A mostly silent (except for one 78 instrumental record played in the background of one sequence) experimental film centering around a stylized...

Experimental short film directed by Ken Jacobs with music by diNMachine.

Filmed by Stella Weiss and family, chance-assembled from uncut 100-foot film-rolls. Sound precedes and follows silent image (40 minutes of image plus...

An Eternalism film.

Home movie by Ken Jacobs. Black and white and silent.

The eighth entry in Ken Jacobs Book of Eternalisms series.

An Eternalism film.

A stereo-photo of an ocean wave slowly turns and churns. The hidden forces of Cinema conspire with an instant of history to produce actions that...

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...

Experimental short film.

An Eternalism film.

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

An eternalism film.

“‘FAIR AND WHITE’ is the name of a line of beauty parlors in Paris largely catering to an African-French clientele. No-one...