Ken Jacobs Movies

An adult decides to escape the pressures of life and return to his old bedroom at his parents' house.

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

Ken Jacobs applies three-dimensional digital animation to a century-old film by Edwin S. Porter.

A short by Ken Jacobs. Taormina, Sicily; Mt. Etna erupting nearby.

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

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

A story told by director Ken Jacobs but without conventional storyline. Using a modified magic lantern, an early type of image projector developed in...

"Influenced by avant-garde artist-refugees from Europe, non-representational art dominated the art market after WW2 [...] Viewers offered open minds,...

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

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Ken Jacobs’ most recent stroboscopic work transforms a typical New York street scaffolding scene into a mesmeric, Christo-esque merry-go-round.

A series of video letters between José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas.

"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...

An examination of the history of the U.S. through archival footage and contrasting views of society, incorporating audiovisual material ranging from...

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

Ken Jacobs applies his patented Eternalism process to 3D images he took of Jackson Pollock's 1954 splatter painting.

Part of a series of Eternalisms

World Premiere -- Museum of Moving Image 1/14/2017