Ken Jacobs Movies

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

The late, legendary experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage is the subject of this video portrait by his friends Ken Jacobs and Nisi Jacobs.The video...

An unfinished 8mm film from 1964

"The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my...

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

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Abstract short in Jacob's current 3D style.

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

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

The diamond patterns in the wire fencing for construction on his street inspired Ken Jacobs’s latest astonishing 3-D extravaganza.

"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...

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.

40 minute 3D work.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An homage to Op-Art, Brain Operations was inspired by an optical illusion produced by checkered tiles on the artist's bathroom floor. "When editing...

Ken Jacobs applies three-dimensional digital animation to a century-old film by Edwin S. Porter.