Ken Jacobs Movies

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...

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

One of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

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

"Waiting, waiting, for a bus to carry us a mile downtown. We often give up and walk. When we commit ourselves to waiting the bus usually appears with...

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.

"Details of paintings by Joan Mitchell undergo Eternalizing. The process introduces emphatic flicker that helps create illusions of depth, even for a...

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

An Eternailsm 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

A reworking of 10 seconds from Entrée d`une noce à l`église (Entrance of a wedding at the church), the 1896 Lumiere brothers...

An Eternalism film.

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

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Ken Jacobs applying a strobing effect to NYC trees.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

World Premiere -- Museum of Moving Image 1/14/2017