Ken Jacobs Movies

3D film by Ken Jacobs

"Flat image (of snowbound suburban housing tract) blossoms into 3D only when viewer places Eye Opener before the right eye. (Keeping both eyes open,...

Obvious as the facts may be, (and available on the web; tap in the expression Reichstag 9/11), we are all wonderfully free to “make up our own...

A sly take on recent US foreign policy in the Middle East, 3D footage of the exit from NYFF’s premiere of The Social Network makes for...

Avant-garde master Ken Jacobs' dizzying digital reinvention of a 1903 Edison "actuality" stretches and bends the one-minute film to an incredible,...

Jacobs's 1st Window is a dazzling balletic breaking-up of the cinematic frame.

The diamond patterns in the wire fencing for construction on his street inspired Ken Jacobs’s latest astonishing 3-D extravaganza.

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...

3D Polaroid *Note: Must be viewed on 3D monitor with polaroid glasses Duration: 9' Year: 2015 Sound

Ken Jacobs short film eventually incorporated into The Sky Socialist.

Co-made with Nisi Ariana

Part of a series of Eternalisms

Ken Jacobs at a Chinese restaurant.

A 2021 Jacobs Eternalism

2021, 6:23, digital. Part of the Nervous Magic Lantern films.

Illusions of Depth in Flux

Ken Jacobs applying a strobing effect to NYC trees.

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...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"