Ken Jacobs Movies

An adult decides to escape the pressures of life and return to his old bedroom at his parents' house.

"One of the nice things about movies was you could keep them at a distance. Movies knew their place. We were dimensional, they were flat, so it was...

Suggestion: Please see 'Another Occupation' before 'Seeking the Monkey King'. Contains flicker like many of my works; avoid if you have epilepsy or...

Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up...

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

An Eternalism film.

A series of video letters between José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas.

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

Using his trademark flicker method, Ken Jacobs pays homage to the oldest type of color film, Kodachrome (whose production was discontinued in 2009)...

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

Part of a series of Eternalisms

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

A stereograph of an ocean wave breaking is suspended in time as it reshapes in time and in depth. 3-D for both two eyed and single-eyed viewers.

An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

Film portrait of Naomi Levine by Ken Jacobs

Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925) digitally embossed

Black and white evokes nostalgia for The Great Depression. Things were so cheap, including lives. We see daredevils (desperate people) compete for...

An Eternalism film.

"Flat image (of snowbound suburban housing tract) blossoms into 3D only when viewer places Eye Opener before the right eye. (Keeping both eyes open,...

This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology’s voicemail system...