Ken Jacobs Movies
- 2023
Tourists of the Familiar 15
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Part of a series of Eternalisms
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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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- 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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- 2002
Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence
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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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- 2009
"Slow is Beauty"-Rodin
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Anaglyph 3D film by Ken Jacobs based on a 1974 shadow play performance.
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- 1975
Urban Peasants
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Filmed by Stella Weiss and family, chance-assembled from uncut 100-foot film-rolls. Sound precedes and follows silent image (40 minutes of image plus...
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- 2024
Tourists of the Familiar 70
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A Rainy Day in New York.
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- 1996
Disorient Express
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1906 - Original cinematographer unknown. 1996 - New arrangement by Ken Jacobs. Shots shown as found in "A Trip Down Mount Tamalpais", the Paper Print...
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- 2007
Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World
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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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- 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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- 2009
What Happened on 23rd Street in 1901
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Ken Jacobs applies three-dimensional digital animation to a century-old film by Edwin S. Porter.
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- 2016
Lurking
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3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs
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- 2023
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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A 2023 Ken Jacobs Eternalism
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- 2013
The Eternal Courtship
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In celebration of his 80th birthday, here is: THE ETERNAL COURTSHIP (an ipad short) For Ken and Flo Jacobs, with love and affection from all of us...
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- 2023
Tourists of the Familiar 10
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Part of a series of Eternalisms
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- 2019
Once Upon a Planet
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Ken and Flo Jacobs walk from an MTA bus to their apartment in the icy rain. This is transformed by a 360° camera and digital effects into an...
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- 2020
Foliage in Moving Car Window
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An Eternalism film.
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- 2016
Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
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"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"
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- 2003
Nervous Ken
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In NERVOUS KEN, experimental film legend Ken Jacobs is "interviewed" by my urbane 12-year old M.C., Emma Bernstein. Envisioning an exploration of the...
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- 1963
Scotch Tape
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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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