Ken Jacobs Movies

A 3-D vacation album, The Day Was a Scorcher pictures what Jacobs describes as "movie-star Flo, Nisi the thoughtful young girl, and Aza old enough to...

Assisted by Nisi Ariana, 24 minutes

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.

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

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Writes Ken Jacobs: "Louis-Aimé-Augustin Le Prince was the first person to create, in 1885, a single recording apparatus that photographed...

Jacobs’s hypnotic “3-D” adaptation of New York 1911, a long-forgotten Swedish documentary restored by MoMA in 2017, is...

A book of eternalisms, structured the same as the Tourists of the Familiar series, with an emphasis on water.

Jacobs documents the work of artist Ronald Gonzalez in his Binghamton, NY home and studio space. Producing more of an abstract portrait than a...

"3D is rather a slighting way to speak of deep space. I enjoyed AVATAR and HUGO, though not much else among the movies I’ve seen in illusionary...

Ken Jacobs' seventh Book of Eternalisms.

In celebration of his 80th birthday, here is: THE ETERNAL COURTSHIP (an ipad short) For Ken and Flo Jacobs, with love and affection from all of us...

No description from the artist.

An Eternalism film.

A wholesome moment: Jonas Mekas, MM Serra, Ken Jacobs, and Flo Jacobs take lavender from a stranger's bush.

An Eternalism film.

Ken Jacobs short film eventually incorporated into The Sky Socialist.

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

An Eternalism film.