Ken Jacobs Movies

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

An installment of Ken Jacobs series Amorous Interludes

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

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

"The image on the screen flickers unsteadily; the rhythm is unsettling: black/white, black/white, white/black. The film cuts abruptly to a...

An Eternalism film.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

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

Working with Virgil’s four-part poem “Georgics” and Antonio Vivaldi’s concertos “The Four Seasons” as models,...

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

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

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

“All hallucinations of Paradise Lost come from the longing to levitate. Vision is lightship and shipwreck - Herbert Postl from Ideal Forms of...

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,...

MM Serra and Jonas Mekas sign a paper in 3D.

Three identical prints of a single 100 foot fixed-camera take are shown from beginning to end-roll light-flare, with a few feet of blackness...

An Eternalism film.

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

An Eternalism film.