Ken Jacobs Movies

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,...
2017
A Spin Through Night City
A Spin Through Night City
02017HD
Description by Ken Jacobs: A Spin Through Night City gets many visual elements spinning. Only daughter Nisi working at our computer knows how...
2011
Seeking the Monkey King
Seeking the Monkey King
4.82011HD
Suggestion: Please see 'Another Occupation' before 'Seeking the Monkey King'. Contains flicker like many of my works; avoid if you have epilepsy or...
2007
New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903
New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903
62007HD
First created and presented as a Tzadik New Jewish Culture offering in 1993. First performed live as a Nervous System performance with Catherine...
1975
Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture
Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture
01975HD
In the backyard with the inimitable Jerry Sims. Shot in 8mm in 1975, edited and transferred to 16mm in 1987.
1991
Quartet Number One
Quartet Number One
7.51991HD
Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.
2014
Popeye Sees 3-D
Popeye Sees 3-D
02014HD
Studying painting with Hans Hofmann had sensitized me to depth phenomena, to strange readings of depth including the most unnatural: flat. In 1964, I...
2011
The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street
The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street
02011HD
Early 20th-century street vendors push their carts loaded with vegetables. It is time for them to go. Little by little, the viewer discovers...
2015
Batchellor’s Dog and Beach
Batchellor’s Dog and Beach
02015HD
Anaglyph 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.
2011
OCCUPY WALL STREET, THE 99% JOIN IN
OCCUPY WALL STREET, THE 99% JOIN IN
02011HD
Short visit to Zuccotti Park. Flo and I walk along Broadway and meet no less that 50,000 people turning onto Broadway at Chambers Street. The event...
2011
America at War, The Home Front: Film Opening
America at War, The Home Front: Film Opening
02011HD
A sly take on recent US foreign policy in the Middle East, 3D footage of the exit from NYFF’s premiere of The Social Network makes for...
1966
The Sky Socialist
The Sky Socialist
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Ken Jacobs’s most elusive and mysterious film is at once an allegory of movie-making, a demonstration of 8mm versatility, and a celebration of...
2019
MOVING ROAD
MOVING ROAD
02019HD
An Eternalism film.
1994
Bitemporal Vision: The Sea
Bitemporal Vision: The Sea
01994HD
'Blinking' 2D rendition of one of Ken Jacobs' Nervous System performances first presented in 1994.
2017
Get Up and Go
Get Up and Go
02017HD
Description by Ken Jacobs: Get Up and Go is a glimpse given dimension. No day is complete without a visit to Chinatown and on this day my movie...
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
01977HD
Foreman’s longtime friend Ken Jacobs situated himself in the audience of the legendary Ontological-Hysteric theater space at 491 Broadway to...
2009
"Slow is Beauty"-Rodin
"Slow is Beauty"-Rodin
02009HD
Anaglyph 3D film by Ken Jacobs based on a 1974 shadow play performance.
2019
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
02019HD
"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs
2016
Mosco Street 3: Attack of The Perfect Camera (Fuji W3)
Mosco Street 3: Attack of The Perfect Camera (Fuji W3)
02016HD
Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.
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...