Ken Jacobs Movies
- 2002
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...
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- 2019
Above the Rain
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Mountain ranges lighter than air.
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- 1963
Blonde Cobra
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A man fondles objects, looks at himself in the mirror, poses in different clothes, smiles and makes faces at the camera while his voice on the...
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- 2019
Nervous Magic Lantern: 3D for One or Two Naked Eyes
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Assisted by Nisi Ariana, 24 minutes
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- 2011
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
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An anthology of one-minute films created by 60 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was...
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- 2008
Momma's Man
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An adult decides to escape the pressures of life and return to his old bedroom at his parents' house.
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- 2008
The Discovery
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An Eternailsm 3-D film by Ken Jacobs
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- 2019
MOVING ROAD
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An Eternalism film.
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- 2008
Amorous Interludes: His Favorite Wife Improved (or The Virtue Of Bad Reception)
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An installment of Ken Jacobs series Amorous Interludes
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- 2020
Municipal Building Passage
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An Eternalism film.
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- 2021
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Part of his “Nervous System” performances, the artist’s skills as a projectionist were highlighted when he invented this specially...
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- 2019
Chaos Is Order Misunderstood
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The Nervous Magic Lantern is a projection device I came up with in the year 2000. With assistance from wife Flo (Florence) we have been performing...
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- 1965
Naomi Is A Dream of Loveliness
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Film portrait of Naomi Levine by Ken Jacobs
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- 2017
Along the Elevated
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Description by Ken Jacobs: Along the Elevated is an expanse of city architecture in delicious depth (depth is not only what things exist in, its ins...
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- 1962
Scotch Tape
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Shot in 1959, Scotch Tape is Jack Smith's first film -- a joyous, three-minute romp, in color, using Peter Duchin's rhumba "Carinhoso" for its...
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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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- 2007
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...
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- 1997
Birth of a Nation
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Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
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- 2007
Capitalism: Slavery
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In Capitalism: Slavery, Jacobs uses a Victorian stereograph (a double-photograph) of slaves picking cotton under the watchful eye of a white overseer...
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- 1976
Lost, Lost, Lost
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Jonas Mekas adjusts to a life in exile in New York in his autobiographical film, shot between 1949 and 1963.
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