Ken Jacobs Movies

Here Jacobs revisits the original 1905 source material of his celebrated 1969 structuralist film, Tom Tom the Piper's Son. In his earlier film, a...

A picturing of sound in 3D.

An Eternalism film.

Anaglyph 3D film by Ken Jacobs based on a 1974 shadow play performance.

Foreman’s longtime friend Ken Jacobs situated himself in the audience of the legendary Ontological-Hysteric theater space at 491 Broadway to...

Sequel to Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway

Little Stabs at Happiness is a collection of silent shorts Jacobs shot from the period of 1959-1963. Jaunty tunes (and a somber reflection) accompany...

An Eternalism film.

Ken Jacobs’s most elusive and mysterious film is at once an allegory of movie-making, a demonstration of 8mm versatility, and a celebration 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,...

2022, 12:43, digital. Drawing by Victor Tomofeev, "A Skater's City"

Each new year Flo and I join the young and many-languaged crowd walking to the top of Brooklyn Bridge ostensibly for the fireworks. Fact is the...

'Blinking' 2D rendition of one of Ken Jacobs' Nervous System performances first presented in 1994.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

First two-cycle Eternalism. Interesting for the contrast of movements and depth configurations but also in indicating an end to the display and...

Stereograph of the crowd at the opening of the US Centennial Exposition of 1893. It turns into a movie. Into an enormous rugged and craggy 3-D...

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

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

Part of a series of Eternalisms

One last ferry ride with the Jacobs family.