Ken Jacobs Movies
- 2023
For James Otis
For James Otis02023HD
A Ken Jacobs eternalism made using a dazzling iPhone panorama from James Otis.
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- 2011
OCCUPY WALL STREET, THE 99% JOIN IN
OCCUPY WALL STREET, THE 99% JOIN IN02011HD
Short visit to Zuccotti Park. Flo and I walk along Broadway and meet no less that 50,000 people turning onto Broadway at Chambers Street. The event...
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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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- 1956
Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice
Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice01956HD
Short film with Jack Smith as the mysterious leader of an even-more-mysterious cult, garbed in pseudo-papal regalia and adorned with jewelry and...
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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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- 1994
Bitemporal Vision: The Sea
Bitemporal Vision: The Sea01994HD
'Blinking' 2D rendition of one of Ken Jacobs' Nervous System performances first presented in 1994.
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- 2017
Swee’pea’s Favorite Eternalisms
Swee’pea’s Favorite Eternalisms02017HD
3D Eternalism by Ken Jacobs
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- 1986
The Alps and The Jews
The Alps and The Jews01986HD
An unfinished 3D film using the Pulfrich filter. "We travel by train through the mountains of central and northern Italy, 3-D country; the Alps,...
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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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- 2020
Brick Building with Red and Green Windows
Brick Building with Red and Green Windows02020HD
An Eternalism film.
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- 1955
Orchard Street
Orchard Street6.81955HD
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.
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- 2021
In Front of Anthology
In Front of Anthology02021HD
2021, 1 minute 58 seconds, digital.
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- 1977
Book of Splendors, Part Two, Book of Levers: Action at a Distance
Book of Splendors, Part Two, Book of Levers: Action at a Distance01977HD
Foreman’s longtime friend Ken Jacobs situated himself in the audience of the legendary Ontological-Hysteric theater space at 491 Broadway to...
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- 2015
Batchellor’s Dog and Beach
Batchellor’s Dog and Beach02015HD
Anaglyph 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.
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- 1967
Bill's Hat
Bill's Hat01967HD
"The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my...
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- 2017
A Spin Through Night City
A Spin Through Night City02017HD
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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- 2008
Amorous Interludes: His Favorite Wife Improved (or The Virtue Of Bad Reception)
Amorous Interludes: His Favorite Wife Improved (or The Virtue Of Bad Reception)02008HD
An installment of Ken Jacobs series Amorous Interludes
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- 2023
Ken Jacobs - from Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern Art
Ken Jacobs - from Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern Art02023HD
One of the most extraordinary personalities in the history of moving images, native New Yorker Ken Jacobs, and his wife and long-time creative...
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- 2006
Two Wrenching Departures
Two Wrenching Departures52006HD
Made in response to the death of his friends Bob Fleischner and Jack Smith, who died within one week of each other in 1989, this feature includes...
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- 1963
Scotch Tape
Scotch Tape4.41963HD
Shot in 1959, Scotch Tape is Jack Smith's first film -- a joyous, three-minute romp, in color, using Peter Duchin's rhumba "Carinhoso" for its...
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