Ken Jacobs Movies
- 2023
Other Urban Lives
Other Urban Lives02023HD
Ken Jacobs applying a strobing effect to NYC trees.
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- 1965
Lisa and Joey in Connecticut
Lisa and Joey in Connecticut01965HD
Jacob's home movie portrait of Alfred Leslie and his family intercut with fragments of a Mickey Mouse cartoon.
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- 2021
Double Wow
Double Wow02021HD
40 minute 3D work.
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- 1964
The Winter Footage
The Winter Footage01964HD
A film by Ken Jacobs made in 8mm
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- 2019
Failure
Failure02019HD
"fails to distinguish art from history." An eternalism film by Ken Jacobs.
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- 2020
Barber
Barber02020HD
An Eternalism film.
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- 2002
A Tom Tom Chaser
A Tom Tom Chaser02002HD
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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- 2006
The Surging Sea of Humanity
The Surging Sea of Humanity02006HD
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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- 2023
From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight02023HD
A strobing deconstruction of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight.
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- 2007
We Are Charming
We Are Charming02007HD
An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs
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- 2009
Ronald Gonzales, Sculptor
Ronald Gonzales, Sculptor02009HD
Jacobs documents the work of artist Ronald Gonzalez in his Binghamton, NY home and studio space. Producing more of an abstract portrait than a...
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- 2007
Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World
Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World02007HD
Originally presented as an installation in the exhibition Evolution 2007 at Lumen in Leeds, GIFT OF FIRE devotes fetishistic attention to what is...
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- 2023
Tourists of the Familiar 15
Tourists of the Familiar 1502023HD
Part of a series of Eternalisms
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- 1967
Airshaft
Airshaft01967HD
Single fixed-camera take looking from within darkened room, (camera within a camera) out through fire-escape door into vertical space between rears...
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- 2020
Street Commerce II
Street Commerce II02020HD
An Eternalism film.
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- 2016
Ken Jacobs / Tom Chiu of Flux Quartet @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
Ken Jacobs / Tom Chiu of Flux Quartet @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival02016HD
"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"
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- 2016
I'm Telling You
I'm Telling You02016HD
Features two old men talking on the Lower East Side; one loud mouth, the other bizarrely amiable, in 3D.
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- 1964
1st Window
1st Window01964HD
Jacobs's 1st Window is a dazzling balletic breaking-up of the cinematic frame.
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- 2020
Sleeping American
Sleeping American02020HD
An Eternalism film.
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- 2021
A Small Misunderstanding
A Small Misunderstanding02021HD
2021, 6:23, digital. Part of the Nervous Magic Lantern films.
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