Ken Jacobs Movies

A picturing of sound in 3D.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

MM Serra and Jonas Mekas sign a paper in 3D.

A multi-part series of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

An experimental feature made by rephotographing the 1905 Biograph short Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son.

Berlin documented by the US after WW2, recorded again in 1986 by Flo and Ken feigning innocence when passing by elevated train between Capitalist...

Directed by Ken Jacobs, 1985. In Jacobs' own words: "I wish more stuff was available in its raw state, as primary source material for anyone to...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

The eighth entry in Ken Jacobs Book of Eternalisms series.

Jacobs's 1st Window is a dazzling balletic breaking-up of the cinematic frame.

Jacob's home movie portrait of Alfred Leslie and his family intercut with fragments of a Mickey Mouse cartoon.

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

Early 20th-century street vendors push their carts loaded with vegetables. It is time for them to go. Little by little, the viewer discovers...

An Eternalism film.

"The editing procedure was to count the number of shots and start the film off with the numerically middle shot and then, after that, the shot that...

An unfinished 3D film using the Pulfrich filter. "We travel by train through the mountains of central and northern Italy, 3-D country; the Alps,...

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...