Ken Jacobs Movies

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

A multi-part series of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

In Capitalism: Slavery, Jacobs uses a Victorian stereograph (a double-photograph) of slaves picking cotton under the watchful eye of a white overseer...

An Eternalism film.

Film portrait of Naomi Levine by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

2021, 1 minute 58 seconds, digital.

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...

40 minute 3D work.

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

An Eternalism film.

One of Ken Jacobs' eternalism films that explores themes of environmental destruction and capitalist greed through a 3D, suspended-time, stereoscopic...

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

An Eternalism film.

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

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

In celebration of his 80th birthday, here is: THE ETERNAL COURTSHIP (an ipad short) For Ken and Flo Jacobs, with love and affection from all of us...

Mountain ranges lighter than air.

This work is derived from one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use neither film...

An Eternalism film.