Ken Jacobs Movies
- 2016
Ken Jacobs / diNMachine @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
Ken Jacobs / diNMachine @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival02016HD
"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"
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- 2016
Snow in Headlights II
Snow in Headlights II02016HD
An Eternalism film.
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- 2022
America Lets Her Hair Down 1905
America Lets Her Hair Down 190502022HD
Co-made with Nisi Ariana
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- 1973
Horizons
Horizons8.51973HD
Working with Virgil’s four-part poem “Georgics” and Antonio Vivaldi’s concertos “The Four Seasons” as models,...
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- 1999
New York Street Trolleys 1900
New York Street Trolleys 190001999HD
In this unique document, Jacobs demonstrates one of his live, multi-projection "Nervous System" film performances in real time. (The Nervous System...
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- 2015
The Lackadaisical Speed of Light
The Lackadaisical Speed of Light02015HD
"Hidden in a movie shot is an infinity of monsters. Pause and they show themselves (at their worst in 3D)." - Ken Jacobs
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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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- 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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- 1970
Depth for One Eye or Two
Depth for One Eye or Two01970HD
An eternalism.
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- 1985
Perfect Film
Perfect Film61985HD
Directed by Ken Jacobs, 1985. In Jacobs' own words: "I wish more stuff was available in its raw state, as primary source material for anyone to...
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- 2005
Let There Be Whistle Blowers
Let There Be Whistle Blowers02005HD
A train passes though a tunnel and hurtles on to a station. Time and space are toyed with, things enter an impossible state of ongoing movement while...
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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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- 2026
Downtown Loft with Skylights
Downtown Loft with Skylights02026HD
In this late work (made with Azazel Jacobs’s participation), Ken Jacobs returns to an earlier (and frequent) subject, the bric-a-brac-laden...
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- 2013
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #4
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #402013HD
"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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- 2018
The Moments: Evening Boat Ride
The Moments: Evening Boat Ride02018HD
3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs
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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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- 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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- 1968
Huge Pupils
Huge Pupils01968HD
In 1968, Noren finished Huge Pupils, a gorgeous, sensuous, sexually outrageous visual study of his daily life, and part I of an ongoing series he...
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- 2008
Anaglyph Tom (Tom with Puffy Cheeks)
Anaglyph Tom (Tom with Puffy Cheeks)5.52008HD
Here Jacobs revisits the original 1905 source material of his celebrated 1969 structuralist film, Tom Tom the Piper's Son. In his earlier film, a...
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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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