Ken Jacobs Movies

An Eternalism film.

An unfinished 8mm film from 1964

An examination of the history of the U.S. through archival footage and contrasting views of society, incorporating audiovisual material ranging from...

An Eternalism film.

Description by Ken Jacobs: Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl is the fourth in a series of shorts (Popeye Sees 3D; Pappy Sees 3D, Too; Sweepea’s...

Studying painting with Hans Hofmann had sensitized me to depth phenomena, to strange readings of depth including the most unnatural: flat. In 1964, I...

Ken Jacobs short film eventually incorporated into The Sky Socialist.

Abstract short in Jacob's current 3D style.

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.

Still shots of a revolving door at New York City's Church Street Station Post Office are edited together to create a sense of movement, redoubled by...

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

Description by Ken Jacobs: Get Up and Go is a glimpse given dimension. No day is complete without a visit to Chinatown and on this day my movie...

"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...

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

Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

Film by Ken Jacobs. Exists as both 2D and 3D Version

Silent film by Ken Jacobs featuring his son asleep at the table then being put to bed.

Jacobs’s hypnotic “3-D” adaptation of New York 1911, a long-forgotten Swedish documentary restored by MoMA in 2017, is...

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

This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...