Ken Jacobs Movies
- 2005
Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye Molly
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Ken Jacobs, the erstwhile master of experimental celluloid filmmaking, fully embraces video technology in this reworking of the 1929 Laurel and Hardy...
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- 1977
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...
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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
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.
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- 2012
Emma's Dilemma
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Henry Hills’s Emma’s Dilemma reinvents the portrait for the age of digital reproduction. In a set of tour-de-force probes into the images...
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- 2023
Tourists of the Familiar 15
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Part of a series of Eternalisms
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- 2021
In Front of Anthology
In Front of Anthology02021HD
2021, 1 minute 58 seconds, digital.
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- 1977
The Doctor's Dream
The Doctor's Dream01977HD
"The editing procedure was to count the number of shots and start the film off with the numerically middle shot and then, after that, the shot that...
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- 1991
Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896
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Found Footage avantgarde film.
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- 2016
Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
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"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"
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- 2009
Excerpt From THE SKY SOCIALIST Stratified
Excerpt From THE SKY SOCIALIST Stratified02009HD
Digitally remixed elements from Ken Jacobs' 1960s film The Sky Socialist
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- 2026
A Date with Shirley
A Date with Shirley02026HD
Dir. Ken Jacobs. 2025, 48 mins. U.S. Digital. This colorful and cubist record of a Chinatown haircut is the final long-form work by the great...
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- 2014
Popeye Sees 3-D
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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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- 2015
Batchellor’s Dog and Beach
Batchellor’s Dog and Beach02015HD
Anaglyph 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.
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- 2020
Halley’s Comet
Halley’s Comet02020HD
An Eternalism film.
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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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- 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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- 2023
Tourists of the Familiar 5
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Part of a series of Eternalisms
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- 2020
Brick Building with Red and Green Windows
Brick Building with Red and Green Windows02020HD
An Eternalism film.
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- 2007
Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World
Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World02007HD
Originally presented as an installation in the exhibition Evolution 2007 at Lumen in Leeds, GIFT OF FIRE devotes fetishistic attention to what is...
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