Ken Jacobs Movies

In 1968, Noren finished Huge Pupils, a gorgeous, sensuous, sexually outrageous visual study of his daily life, and part I of an ongoing series he...

Obvious as the facts may be, (and available on the web; tap in the expression Reichstag 9/11), we are all wonderfully free to “make up our own...

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

An Eternalism film.

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abstract short by Ken Jacobs

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

Black and white evokes nostalgia for The Great Depression. Things were so cheap, including lives. We see daredevils (desperate people) compete for...

A study in lunging waves, in 3D.

The moving camera shapes the screen image with great purposefulness, using the frame of a window as fulcrum upon which to wheel about the exterior...

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Part of a series of Eternalisms

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

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

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

A 2021 Jacobs Eternalism

Description by Ken Jacobs: Get Up and Go is a glimpse given dimension. No day is complete without a visit to Chinatown and on this day my movie...

Studying painting with Hans Hofmann had sensitized me to depth phenomena, to strange readings of depth including the most unnatural: flat. In 1964, I...

An Eternalism film.

Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.