Ken Jacobs Movies

"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...

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

Ken Jacobs film on Rodney King and the LA Riots utilizing Pulfrich 3-D, in which a single dark filter is placed before one eye.

An Eternalism film.

Abstract short in Jacob's current 3D style.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

An Eternalism film.

Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

"Hidden in a movie shot is an infinity of monsters. Pause and they show themselves (at their worst in 3D)." - Ken Jacobs

40 minute 3D work.

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

Existing home movie titled and placed into distribution by Jacobs without intervention.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

A sly take on recent US foreign policy in the Middle East, 3D footage of the exit from NYFF’s premiere of The Social Network makes for...

Single fixed-camera take looking from within darkened room, (camera within a camera) out through fire-escape door into vertical space between rears...

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

A 2023 Ken Jacobs Eternalism

Silent film by Ken Jacobs featuring his son asleep at the table then being put to bed.