Ken Jacobs Movies
- 1986
The Alps and The Jews
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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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- 1964
Winter Sky
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An 8mm film by Ken Jacobs made after his 16mm camera was stolen
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- 2016
Hydroelectric Dam
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A study in lunging waves, in 3D.
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- 2012
Blankets for Indians
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Blankets for Indians blends a stereoscopic study of water spurting from New York’s City Hall fountain with an intimately detailed portrait of...
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- 2007
Capitalism: Slavery
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In Capitalism: Slavery, Jacobs uses a Victorian stereograph (a double-photograph) of slaves picking cotton under the watchful eye of a white overseer...
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- 2007
Mosco Street Rapture
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3D eternalism by Ken Jacobs
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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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- 2019
Cartoon
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One of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.
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- 2020
Spiky
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An Eternalism film.
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- 2020
Resting Merchant
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An Eternalism film.
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- 2011
Revolving Door
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Still shots of a revolving door at New York City's Church Street Station Post Office are edited together to create a sense of movement, redoubled by...
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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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- 2006
Two Wrenching Departures
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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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- 1962
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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- 2005
Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye Molly
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Ken Jacobs, the erstwhile master of experimental celluloid filmmaking, fully embraces video technology in this reworking of the 1929 Laurel and Hardy...
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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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- 2017
Ulysses in the Subway
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A picturing of sound in 3D.
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- 2023
Tourists of the Familiar 10
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Part of a series of Eternalisms
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- 2013
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #4
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"Joys…began on the corner of Broadway and Spring but it was the next night waiting on Bleecker that it was understood a movie of sorts was...
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- 2023
Whims of Twenty Twenty-Three
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A 2023 Ken Jacobs Eternalism
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