Ken Jacobs Movies

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

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Features two old men talking on the Lower East Side; one loud mouth, the other bizarrely amiable, in 3D.

An Eternailsm 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

"The editing procedure was to count the number of shots and start the film off with the numerically middle shot and then, after that, the shot that...

Abstract short in Jacob's current 3D style.

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...

A study in lunging waves, in 3D.

Ken Jacobs applies his patented Eternalism process to 3D images he took of Jackson Pollock's 1954 splatter painting.

A young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by.

The Nervous Magic Lantern is a projection device I came up with in the year 2000. With assistance from wife Flo (Florence) we have been performing...

An Eternalism film.

Using the same stereoscopic animation technique of Jacobs' recent works Capitalism: Slavery (2006) and Nymph (2007), which he calls "a vigorous 3-D...

An Eternalism film.

A 2023 Ken Jacobs Eternalism

This work is a demonstration of one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use...

A short by Ken Jacobs. Taormina, Sicily; Mt. Etna erupting nearby.

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs