Ken Jacobs Movies

Ken Jacobs applying a strobing effect to NYC trees.

Description by Ken Jacobs: Along the Elevated is an expanse of city architecture in delicious depth (depth is not only what things exist in, its ins...

One last ferry ride with the Jacobs family.

An 8mm film by Ken Jacobs made after his 16mm camera was stolen

"One of the nice things about movies was you could keep them at a distance. Movies knew their place. We were dimensional, they were flat, so it was...

"Joys…began on the corner of Broadway and Spring but it was the next night waiting on Bleecker that it was understood a movie of sorts was...

A Rainy Day in New York.

The Roses is a meditation on art, aging, and the nature of listening, as well a conversation between generations and between artists. The anaglyph...

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

Ken Jacobs describes Bob Fleischner Dying: "Bob allows his sick and fading image to be caught in stereo photography. A man of mystery, so banal in...

A 2021 Jacobs Eternalism

"One that creates a macabre dance by animating his own drawings." - Steve Anker

An unfinished 8mm film from 1964

Co-made with Nisi Ariana

A book of eternalisms, structured the same as the Tourists of the Familiar series, with an emphasis on water.

An Eternalism film.

Ken Jacobs’ most recent stroboscopic work transforms a typical New York street scaffolding scene into a mesmeric, Christo-esque merry-go-round.

"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...

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

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