Ken Jacobs Movies
- 2022
Eat the Rich: Aligning Perspectives and Other Challenges to Viewers
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Ken Jacobs short film
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- 2003
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...
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- 2017
Capitalism Defeats Life on Earth, Cab in Rain
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One of Ken Jacobs' eternalism films that explores themes of environmental destruction and capitalist greed through a 3D, suspended-time, stereoscopic...
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- 2009
Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days
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Using his trademark flicker method, Ken Jacobs pays homage to the oldest type of color film, Kodachrome (whose production was discontinued in 2009)...
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- 1999
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...
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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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- 1967
Bill's Hat
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"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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- 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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- 2014
The Guests
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A reworking of 10 seconds from Entrée d`une noce à l`église (Entrance of a wedding at the church), the 1896 Lumiere brothers...
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- 2006
Pushcarts of Eternity Street
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Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs
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- 2016
Central Park
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An eternalism film.
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- 2016
Snow in Headlights II
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An Eternalism film.
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- 2023
Tourists of the Familiar 20
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Part of a series of Eternalisms
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- 2015
Floral
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Experimental short silent film (black & white).
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- 1963
Little Stabs at Happiness
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Little Stabs at Happiness is a collection of silent shorts Jacobs shot from the period of 1959-1963. Jaunty tunes (and a somber reflection) accompany...
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- 2019
MOVING ROAD
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An Eternalism film.
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- 2017
Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl
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Description by Ken Jacobs: Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl is the fourth in a series of shorts (Popeye Sees 3D; Pappy Sees 3D, Too; Sweepea’s...
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- 2008
Return to the Scene of the Crime
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This is how the film begins, duck-on-a-leash to Little Bo Peep to the revealing of the too-busy full stage-set. Each gets their close-up and the many...
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- 2020
Brick Building with Red and Green Windows
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An Eternalism film.
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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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