Ken Jacobs Movies
- 1963
Blonde Cobra
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Jack Smith poses in elaborate costumes, plays with everyday objects, and performs for the camera while his disjointed voiceover unfolds through...
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- 2006
The Surging Sea of Humanity
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Stereograph of the crowd at the opening of the US Centennial Exposition of 1893. It turns into a movie. Into an enormous rugged and craggy 3-D...
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- 2020
Period Piece
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An Eternalism film.
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- 2020
Movie That Invites Pausing
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"Influenced by avant-garde artist-refugees from Europe, non-representational art dominated the art market after WW2 [...] Viewers offered open minds,...
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- 2020
Brick Building with Red and Green Windows
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An Eternalism film.
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- 2019
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
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"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs
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- 2011
America at War, The Home Front: Film Opening
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A sly take on recent US foreign policy in the Middle East, 3D footage of the exit from NYFF’s premiere of The Social Network makes for...
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- 1994
Bitemporal Vision: The Sea
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'Blinking' 2D rendition of one of Ken Jacobs' Nervous System performances first presented in 1994.
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- 2023
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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A 2023 Ken Jacobs Eternalism
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- 2017
Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl
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Description by Ken Jacobs: Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl is the fourth in a series of shorts (Popeye Sees 3D; Pappy Sees 3D, Too; Sweepea’s...
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- 2017
Along the Elevated
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Description by Ken Jacobs: Along the Elevated is an expanse of city architecture in delicious depth (depth is not only what things exist in, its ins...
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- 2011
The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street
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Early 20th-century street vendors push their carts loaded with vegetables. It is time for them to go. Little by little, the viewer discovers...
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- 2017
A Spin Through Night City
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Description by Ken Jacobs: A Spin Through Night City gets many visual elements spinning. Only daughter Nisi working at our computer knows how...
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- 1970
Depth for One Eye or Two
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An eternalism.
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- 2006
Pushcarts of Eternity Street
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Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs
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- 2023
Book of Eternalisms 7
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Ken Jacobs' seventh Book of Eternalisms.
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- 1965
Lisa and Joey in Connecticut
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Jacob's home movie portrait of Alfred Leslie and his family intercut with fragments of a Mickey Mouse cartoon.
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- 1975
Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture
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In the backyard with the inimitable Jerry Sims. Shot in 8mm in 1975, edited and transferred to 16mm in 1987.
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- 1966
The Sky Socialist
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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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- 1976
Spaghetti Aza
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Silent film by Ken Jacobs featuring his son asleep at the table then being put to bed.
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