Ken Jacobs Movies

3D eternalism by Ken Jacobs

"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...

Ken Jacobs' black and white abstract short from 2019, in five parts.

"3D is rather a slighting way to speak of deep space. I enjoyed AVATAR and HUGO, though not much else among the movies I’ve seen in illusionary...

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

Studying painting with Hans Hofmann had sensitized me to depth phenomena, to strange readings of depth including the most unnatural: flat. In 1964, I...

3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs

An 8mm film by Ken Jacobs made after his 16mm camera was stolen

A book of eternalisms, structured the same as the Tourists of the Familiar series, with an emphasis on water.