Ken Jacobs Movies

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

Found footage film by Ken Jacobs of Pygmalion starring Leslie Howard with various digital glitches.

An Eternalism film.

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...

Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925) digitally embossed

Experimental short silent film (black & white).

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Still shots of a revolving door at New York City's Church Street Station Post Office are edited together to create a sense of movement, redoubled by...

Jacobs documents a New York street vendor, taking a short interaction between the vendor and a customer and protracting it into a strobing,...

2023, 25:34, digital

An Eternalism film.

One of Ken Jacobs' Amorous Interludes

A still image of a palm-lined wooden walkway is edited together with mirror-images, close-ups, upside-down renderings, and smaller, framed versions...

Part of his “Nervous System” performances, the artist’s skills as a projectionist were highlighted when he invented this specially...

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...

An Eternalism film.