Ken Jacobs Movies

A still image of a palm-lined wooden walkway is edited together with mirror-images, close-ups, upside-down renderings, and smaller, framed versions...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

An Eternalism film.

A reworking of 10 seconds from Entrée d`une noce à l`église (Entrance of a wedding at the church), the 1896 Lumiere brothers...

An Eternalism film.

The documentary’s starting point is the discovery and restoration of a rare and unknown photography reel reproduced from a mutoscope film, made...

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

An Eternalism film.

A 3D film by Ken Jacobs

A 3-D vacation album, The Day Was a Scorcher pictures what Jacobs describes as "movie-star Flo, Nisi the thoughtful young girl, and Aza old enough to...

An Eternalism film.

Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

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.

"3D is rather a slighting way to speak of deep space. I enjoyed AVATAR and HUGO, though not much else among the movies I’ve seen in illusionary...

Black and white evokes nostalgia for The Great Depression. Things were so cheap, including lives. We see daredevils (desperate people) compete for...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"