Ken Jacobs Movies

This work is derived from one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use neither film...

Jacobs's 1st Window is a dazzling balletic breaking-up of the cinematic frame.

3D Polaroid *Note: Must be viewed on 3D monitor with polaroid glasses Duration: 9' Year: 2015 Sound

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

Illusions of Depth in Flux

Ken Jacobs short film

An Eternalism film.

An unfinished 8mm film from 1964

Abstract avantgarde film.

Keaton's One Week (1920) digitally embossed

Ken Jacobs' black and white abstract short from 2019, in five parts.

An Eternalism film.

2022, assisted by Antoine Catala

An Eternalism film.

Experimental short film. Silent.

“The film said something necessary at the time: the numinous is everywhere, even upstate Rust Belt Binghamton. The light was perfect, students...

"One that creates a macabre dance by animating his own drawings." - Steve Anker

An eternalism film.

Experimental short silent film (black & white).

An Eternalism film.