Ken Jacobs Movies

An Eternalism film.

Obvious as the facts may be, (and available on the web; tap in the expression Reichstag 9/11), we are all wonderfully free to “make up our own...

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3D eternalism by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

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

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 film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

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

2021, 6:23, digital. Part of the Nervous Magic Lantern films.

In this short and beautiful piece, Jacobs creates a flicker effect by editing close-up footage of a stream together with sections of black, producing...

Music composition by Harrison Birtwistle, 1971 tape realized by Peter Zinovieff. Nervous Magic Lantern performance by Ken jacobs, 1990.

Ken Jacobs writes: "The first two sections were shot around Jack's loft on Reade Street on two 100' 16 mm rolls. Sunday morning, following Saturday's...

An eternalism film.

Illusions of Depth in Flux

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.