Ken Jacobs Movies

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

An Eternalism film.

"fails to distinguish art from history." An eternalism 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

An anaglyph 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

Originally presented as an installation in the exhibition Evolution 2007 at Lumen in Leeds, GIFT OF FIRE devotes fetishistic attention to what is...

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

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

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

An homage to Op-Art, Brain Operations was inspired by an optical illusion produced by checkered tiles on the artist's bathroom floor. "When editing...

An unfinished 3D film using the Pulfrich filter. "We travel by train through the mountains of central and northern Italy, 3-D country; the Alps,...

A picturing of sound in 3D.

Found Footage avantgarde film.

A Tom Tom Chaser is Jacobs' 2002 poetic riff on the transformation of his classic film Tom Tom the Piper's Son from chemical to electronic form...

Experimental short film directed by Ken Jacobs with music by diNMachine.

Ken Jacobs short film eventually incorporated into The Sky Socialist.

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