Ken Jacobs Movies

"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

Ken Jacobs applies his patented Eternalism process to 3D images he took of Jackson Pollock's 1954 splatter painting.

An installment of Ken Jacobs series Amorous Interludes

Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

First created and presented as a Tzadik New Jewish Culture offering in 1993. First performed live as a Nervous System performance with Catherine...

Part of a series of Eternalisms

Anaglyph 3D film by Ken Jacobs based on a 1974 shadow play performance.

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

3D Eternalism by Ken Jacobs

The Nervous Magic Lantern is a projection device I came up with in the year 2000. With assistance from wife Flo (Florence) we have been performing...

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.

A multi-part series of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

An Eternalism film.

One of the most extraordinary personalities in the history of moving images, native New Yorker Ken Jacobs, and his wife and long-time creative...

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...

An anaglyph 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

Abstract short in Jacob's current 3D style.

Dir. Ken Jacobs. 2025, 48 mins. U.S. Digital. This colorful and cubist record of a Chinatown haircut is the final long-form work by the great...