Ken Jacobs Movies

1975
Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture
Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture
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In the backyard with the inimitable Jerry Sims. Shot in 8mm in 1975, edited and transferred to 16mm in 1987.
2022
America Lets Her Hair Down 1905
America Lets Her Hair Down 1905
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Co-made with Nisi Ariana
2002
A Tom Tom Chaser
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...
2023
Manhattan is an Island
Manhattan is an Island
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One last ferry ride with the Jacobs family.
2008
Anaglyph Tom (Tom with Puffy Cheeks)
Anaglyph Tom (Tom with Puffy Cheeks)
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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...
2015
Zazie Learns About Money
Zazie Learns About Money
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Film by Ken Jacobs. Exists as both 2D and 3D Version
2011
The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street
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...
1977
Book of Splendors, Part Two, Book of Levers: Action at a Distance
Book of Splendors, Part Two, Book of Levers: Action at a Distance
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Foreman’s longtime friend Ken Jacobs situated himself in the audience of the legendary Ontological-Hysteric theater space at 491 Broadway to...
2007
Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World
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...
2020
Foliage in Moving Car Window
Foliage in Moving Car Window
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An Eternalism film.
2002
Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence
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...
2022
Eat the Rich: Aligning Perspectives and Other Challenges to Viewers
Eat the Rich: Aligning Perspectives and Other Challenges to Viewers
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Ken Jacobs short film
2018
The Moments: Evening Boat Ride
The Moments: Evening Boat Ride
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3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs
1999
New York Street Trolleys 1900
New York Street Trolleys 1900
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In this unique document, Jacobs demonstrates one of his live, multi-projection "Nervous System" film performances in real time. (The Nervous System...
2005
Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 1888
Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 1888
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Writes Ken Jacobs: "Louis-Aimé-Augustin Le Prince was the first person to create, in 1885, a single recording apparatus that photographed...
1964
Window
Window
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The moving camera shapes the screen image with great purposefulness, using the frame of a window as fulcrum upon which to wheel about the exterior...
2007
Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World
Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World
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Avant-garde master Ken Jacobs' dizzying digital reinvention of a 1903 Edison "actuality" stretches and bends the one-minute film to an incredible,...
2010
Fair And White: Parts I, II, III and Extra
Fair And White: Parts I, II, III and Extra
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“‘FAIR AND WHITE’ is the name of a line of beauty parlors in Paris largely catering to an African-French clientele. No-one...
2010
Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two
Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two
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Sequel to Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway
2003
Keeping an Eye on Stan
Keeping an Eye on Stan
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The late, legendary experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage is the subject of this video portrait by his friends Ken Jacobs and Nisi Jacobs.The video...