Ken Jacobs Movies

Ken Jacobs film on Rodney King and the LA Riots utilizing Pulfrich 3-D, in which a single dark filter is placed before one eye.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Illusions of Depth in Flux

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

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

In Capitalism: Slavery, Jacobs uses a Victorian stereograph (a double-photograph) of slaves picking cotton under the watchful eye of a white overseer...

2022, assisted by Antoine Catala

A film by Ken Jacobs in his Amorous Interludes series

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

Black and white evokes nostalgia for The Great Depression. Things were so cheap, including lives. We see daredevils (desperate people) compete for...

An Eternalism film.

"Details of paintings by Joan Mitchell undergo Eternalizing. The process introduces emphatic flicker that helps create illusions of depth, even for a...

Music composition by Harrison Birtwistle, 1971 tape realized by Peter Zinovieff. Nervous Magic Lantern performance by Ken jacobs, 1990.

Ken Jacobs writes: "The first two sections were shot around Jack's loft on Reade Street on two 100' 16 mm rolls. Sunday morning, following Saturday's...

An Eternalism film.

Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925) digitally embossed