Movies by Ken Jacobs

Orchard Street

Orchard Street

This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.

Window

Window

The moving camera shapes the screen image with great purposefulness, using the frame of a window as fulcrum upon which to wheel about the exterior scene. The zoom lens rips, pulling depth planes apart and slapping them together, contracting and expanding in concurrence with camera movements to impart a terrific apparent-motion to the complex of the object-forms pictured on the horizontal-vertical screen, its axis steadied by the audience's sense of gravity. The camera's movements in being transferred to objects tend also to be greatly magnif...

Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party

Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party

"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs

Clouds and Trees

Clouds and Trees

An Eternalism film.

Details of Pollock's White Light

Details of Pollock's White Light

Ken Jacobs applies his patented Eternalism process to 3D images he took of Jackson Pollock's 1954 splatter painting.

Rain Clouds

Rain Clouds

An Eternalism film.

Rubble

Rubble

An Eternalism film.

Resting Merchant

Resting Merchant

An Eternalism film.

MOVING ROAD

MOVING ROAD

An Eternalism film.

Flowers and Bike

Flowers and Bike

An Eternalism film.

Neon Sign

Neon Sign

An Eternalism film.

PAPPY SEES 3D, TOO

PAPPY SEES 3D, TOO

An Eternalism film.

Spiky

Spiky

An Eternalism film.

DeKooning Passed

DeKooning Passed

An Eternalism film.

Spaceworks

Spaceworks

An Eternalism film.

Water Balloon

Water Balloon

An Eternalism film.

Halley’s Comet

Halley’s Comet

An Eternalism film.

Street Commerce

Street Commerce

An Eternalism film.

Period Piece

Period Piece

An Eternalism film.

Broadway Buildings II

Broadway Buildings II

An Eternalism film.