Ken Jacobs Movies

A film by Ken Jacobs in his Amorous Interludes series

An Eternalism film.

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.

An Eternalism film.

Description by Ken Jacobs: Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl is the fourth in a series of shorts (Popeye Sees 3D; Pappy Sees 3D, Too; Sweepea’s...

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

An examination of the history of the U.S. through archival footage and contrasting views of society, incorporating audiovisual material ranging from...

“The film said something necessary at the time: the numinous is everywhere, even upstate Rust Belt Binghamton. The light was perfect, students...

Short film by Ken Jacobs later included in his compilation The Whirled.

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

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

Description by Ken Jacobs: A Spin Through Night City gets many visual elements spinning. Only daughter Nisi working at our computer knows how...

One of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

A train passes though a tunnel and hurtles on to a station. Time and space are toyed with, things enter an impossible state of ongoing movement while...

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Jackie Raynal, originally aired 29 May 2016.

An Eternalism film.

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