Ken Jacobs Movies

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.

Ken Jacobs short film eventually incorporated into The Sky Socialist.

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

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Description by Ken Jacobs: Get Up and Go is a glimpse given dimension. No day is complete without a visit to Chinatown and on this day my movie...

MM Serra and Jonas Mekas sign a paper in 3D.

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An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

"Flat image (of snowbound suburban housing tract) blossoms into 3D only when viewer places Eye Opener before the right eye. (Keeping both eyes open,...

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

abstract short by Ken Jacobs

Digitally remixed elements from Ken Jacobs' 1960s film The Sky Socialist

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...

Shot in 1959, Scotch Tape is Jack Smith's first film -- a joyous, three-minute romp, in color, using Peter Duchin's rhumba "Carinhoso" for its...

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 applying a strobing effect to NYC trees.

One of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

An Eternalism film.

A stroboscopic train ride along a jungle stream. Asian military men appear with their pith-helmets, keeping the ferns, trees, monkeys, natives in...