Ken Jacobs Movies
- 2009
"Slow is Beauty"-Rodin
"Slow is Beauty"-Rodin02009HD
Anaglyph 3D film by Ken Jacobs based on a 1974 shadow play performance.
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- 2019
PAPPY SEES 3D, TOO
PAPPY SEES 3D, TOO02019HD
An Eternalism film.
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- 2010
Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two
Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two02010HD
Sequel to Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway
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- 2022
Eat the Rich: Aligning Perspectives and Other Challenges to Viewers
Eat the Rich: Aligning Perspectives and Other Challenges to Viewers02022HD
Ken Jacobs short film
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- 2007
New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903
New York Ghetto Fishmarket 190362007HD
First created and presented as a Tzadik New Jewish Culture offering in 1993. First performed live as a Nervous System performance with Catherine...
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- 2002
A Tom Tom Chaser
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A Tom Tom Chaser is Jacobs' 2002 poetic riff on the transformation of his classic film Tom Tom the Piper's Son from chemical to electronic form...
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- 2019
Chaos Is Order Misunderstood
Chaos Is Order Misunderstood02019HD
The Nervous Magic Lantern is a projection device I came up with in the year 2000. With assistance from wife Flo (Florence) we have been performing...
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- 2014
Popeye Sees 3-D
Popeye Sees 3-D02014HD
Studying painting with Hans Hofmann had sensitized me to depth phenomena, to strange readings of depth including the most unnatural: flat. In 1964, I...
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- 2008
Return to the Scene of the Crime
Return to the Scene of the Crime02008HD
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...
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- 1995
Make Light On Film
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Berlin documented by the US after WW2, recorded again in 1986 by Flo and Ken feigning innocence when passing by elevated train between Capitalist...
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- 2022
America Lets Her Hair Down 1905
America Lets Her Hair Down 190502022HD
Co-made with Nisi Ariana
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- 1966
The Sky Socialist
The Sky Socialist01966HD
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...
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- 1969
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
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An experimental feature made by rephotographing the 1905 Biograph short Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son.
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- 2002
Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence
Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence92002HD
Our daughter Nisi and son Aza happened to both be staying at our loft on Chambers Street when fundamentalist Islam struck. A friend observing the...
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- 2023
Whims of Twenty Twenty-Three
Whims of Twenty Twenty-Three02023HD
A 2023 Ken Jacobs Eternalism
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- 2025
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 40
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No description from the artist.
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- 2002
The Sky Socialist: Flight
The Sky Socialist: Flight02002HD
Ken Jacobs short film eventually incorporated into The Sky Socialist.
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- 2019
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party02019HD
"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs
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- 2024
Tourists of the Familiar 70
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A Rainy Day in New York.
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- 2016
Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival02016HD
"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"
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