Ken Jacobs Movies

Short film by Ken Jacobs later included in his compilation The Whirled.

In this short and beautiful piece, Jacobs creates a flicker effect by editing close-up footage of a stream together with sections of black, producing...

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...

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

Early 20th-century street vendors push their carts loaded with vegetables. It is time for them to go. Little by little, the viewer discovers...

Abstract avantgarde film.

"The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my...

Assisted by Nisi Ariana, 24 minutes

An experiment in 3D abetted by a Pulfrich filter, originally theorized in the 1920s. Features water cinematography by Phil Solomon.

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

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.

“‘FAIR AND WHITE’ is the name of a line of beauty parlors in Paris largely catering to an African-French clientele. No-one...

Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

A 3D film by Ken Jacobs

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

This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.

First created and presented as a Tzadik New Jewish Culture offering in 1993. First performed live as a Nervous System performance with Catherine...

Avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs presents Buster Keaton's short silent comedy Cops (1922) as his own work by blacking-out approximately the top...