Ken Jacobs Movies

A digital animation of a Victorian stereoscopic photograph of a 19th-century factory floor, crowded with machinery and child workers. Filmmaker Ken...

Part of a series of Eternalisms

Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology’s voicemail system...

Filmed by Stella Weiss and family, chance-assembled from uncut 100-foot film-rolls. Sound precedes and follows silent image (40 minutes of image plus...

An Eternalism film.

“The film said something necessary at the time: the numinous is everywhere, even upstate Rust Belt Binghamton. The light was perfect, students...

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

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

2022, 12:43, digital. Drawing by Victor Tomofeev, "A Skater's City"

Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925) digitally embossed

Using his trademark flicker method, Ken Jacobs pays homage to the oldest type of color film, Kodachrome (whose production was discontinued in 2009)...

2022, assisted by Antoine Catala

"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...

Stereograph of the crowd at the opening of the US Centennial Exposition of 1893. It turns into a movie. Into an enormous rugged and craggy 3-D...

Part of a series of Eternalisms

This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.

Co-made with Nisi Ariana

'Blinking' 2D rendition of one of Ken Jacobs' Nervous System performances first presented in 1994.