Ken Jacobs Movies

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

An Eternalism film.

An Eternailsm 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

Ken Jacobs’s most elusive and mysterious film is at once an allegory of movie-making, a demonstration of 8mm versatility, and a celebration of...

Part of a series of Eternalisms

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

Keaton's One Week (1920) digitally embossed

This is how the film begins, duck-on-a-leash to Little Bo Peep to the revealing of the too-busy full stage-set. Each gets their close-up and the many...

"fails to distinguish art from history." An eternalism film by Ken Jacobs.

In 1968, Noren finished Huge Pupils, a gorgeous, sensuous, sexually outrageous visual study of his daily life, and part I of an ongoing series he...

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

A study in lunging waves, in 3D.

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,...

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

This work is derived from one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use neither film...

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

Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.

Experimental short film directed by Ken Jacobs with music by diNMachine.

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,...