Ken Jacobs Movies
- 2013
A Primer in Sky Socialism
A Primer in Sky Socialism02013HD
Each new year Flo and I join the young and many-languaged crowd walking to the top of Brooklyn Bridge ostensibly for the fireworks. Fact is the...
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- 2023
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde02023HD
A 2023 Ken Jacobs Eternalism
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- 2017
Swee’pea’s Favorite Eternalisms
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3D Eternalism by Ken Jacobs
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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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- 2023
Tourists of the Familiar 20
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Part of a series of Eternalisms
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- 2020
Movie That Invites Pausing
Movie That Invites Pausing02020HD
"Influenced by avant-garde artist-refugees from Europe, non-representational art dominated the art market after WW2 [...] Viewers offered open minds,...
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- 2023
Whims of Twenty Twenty-Three
Whims of Twenty Twenty-Three02023HD
A 2023 Ken Jacobs Eternalism
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- 1969
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
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An experimental feature made by rephotographing the 1905 Biograph short Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son.
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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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- 2009
Bob Fleischner Dying
Bob Fleischner Dying02009HD
Ken Jacobs describes Bob Fleischner Dying: "Bob allows his sick and fading image to be caught in stereo photography. A man of mystery, so banal in...
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- 2005
Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 1888
Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 188802005HD
Writes Ken Jacobs: "Louis-Aimé-Augustin Le Prince was the first person to create, in 1885, a single recording apparatus that photographed...
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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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- 2022
Eat the Rich: Aligning Perspectives and Other Challenges to Viewers
Eat the Rich: Aligning Perspectives and Other Challenges to Viewers02022HD
Ken Jacobs short film
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- 1968
Huge Pupils
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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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- 2016
Ken Jacobs / Tom Chiu of Flux Quartet @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
Ken Jacobs / Tom Chiu of Flux Quartet @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival02016HD
"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"
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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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- 2017
A Spin Through Night City
A Spin Through Night City02017HD
Description by Ken Jacobs: A Spin Through Night City gets many visual elements spinning. Only daughter Nisi working at our computer knows how...
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- 2025
Book of Eternalisms 39
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No description from the artist
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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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- 2014
Popeye Sees 3-D
Popeye Sees 3-D02014HD
Studying painting with Hans Hofmann had sensitized me to depth phenomena, to strange readings of depth including the most unnatural: flat. In 1964, I...
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