Ken Jacobs Movies

Shot in 1959, Scotch Tape is Jack Smith's first film -- a joyous, three-minute romp, in color, using Peter Duchin's rhumba "Carinhoso" for its...

Part of a series of Eternalisms

“All hallucinations of Paradise Lost come from the longing to levitate. Vision is lightship and shipwreck - Herbert Postl from Ideal Forms of...

Part of a series of Eternalisms

A stroboscopic train ride along a jungle stream. Asian military men appear with their pith-helmets, keeping the ferns, trees, monkeys, natives in...

An anthology of one-minute films created by 51 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was...

An Eternalism film.

A 2023 Ken Jacobs Eternalism

Writes Ken Jacobs: "Louis-Aimé-Augustin Le Prince was the first person to create, in 1885, a single recording apparatus that photographed...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Part of a series of Eternalisms

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.

2023, 25:34, digital

Jacobs applies his exacting digital techniques to footage of his New York City working and living space.

Part of a series of Eternalisms

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

Part of a series of Eternalisms

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

Anaglyph 3D film by Ken Jacobs based on a 1974 shadow play performance.