Movies: Ken Jacobs

1967
Airshaft (1967)
Airshaft
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Single fixed-camera take looking from within darkened room, (camera within a camera) out through fire-escape door into vertical space between rears of downtown N. Y. loft buildings. A potted plant, fallen sheet of white paper, cat rests on the foregr...
2007
Hanky Panky January 1902 (2007)
Hanky Panky January 1902
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An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs...
2020
Sleeping American (2020)
Sleeping American
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An Eternalism film....
2010
Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta? (2010)
Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta?
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The documentary’s starting point is the discovery and restoration of a rare and unknown photography reel reproduced from a mutoscope film, made in 1901 in London, about Santos Dumont (1873 – 1932). The work approaches historic and artistic aspects fr...
2019
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party (2019)
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
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"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs...
2009
The Day Was a Scorcher (2009)
The Day Was a Scorcher
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A 3-D vacation album, The Day Was a Scorcher pictures what Jacobs describes as "movie-star Flo, Nisi the thoughtful young girl, and Aza old enough to trudge with the rest of us, but still expecting to be pushed around on wheels," frolicking in a sun-...
1975
Urban Peasants (1975)
Urban Peasants
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Filmed by Stella Weiss and family, chance-assembled from uncut 100-foot film-rolls. Sound precedes and follows silent image (40 minutes of image plus 12 minutes of sound). My wife Flo's family as recorded by her Aunt Stella. The title is no intended ...
2023
Tourists of the Familiar 10 (2023)
Tourists of the Familiar 10
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Part of a series of Eternalisms...
2015
Cyclops Observes the Celestial Bodies (2015)
Cyclops Observes the Celestial Bodies
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Abstract short in Jacob's current 3D style....
1999
New York Street-Trollys 1900 (1999)
New York Street-Trollys 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 performances feature a unique double-analysis projector set-up, deriving 3-D from standard 2-D film, m...
2005
Incendiary Cinema (2005)
Incendiary Cinema
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"The image on the screen flickers unsteadily; the rhythm is unsettling: black/white, black/white, white/black. The film cuts abruptly to a playground. Color appears, sound sets in. Children crawl in the sand, adults watch over them, sitting on benche...
2010
Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two (2010)
Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two
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Sequel to Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway...
2020
Another Day in Days of Yore (2020)
Another Day in Days of Yore
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An Eternalism film....
2023
Tourists of the Familiar 1 (2023)
Tourists of the Familiar 1
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Part of a series of Eternalisms...
2020
Working Girls (short) (2020)
Working Girls (short)
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An Eternalism film....
2020
Chinese New Years (2020)
Chinese New Years
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An Eternalism film....
2023
Spasm (2023)
Spasm
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Spasm (2023, 13:41, digital)...
2016
Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas (2016)
Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
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A “Cinéma, de notre temps” series episode directed by french filmmaker Jackie Raynal, originally aired 29 May 2016....
2004
Mountaineer Spinning (2004)
Mountaineer Spinning
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This work is a demonstration of one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use neither film nor video. Highly stroboscopic and hallucinatory, these kinetic performances result in otherwo...
2023
Writhing City (2023)
Writhing City
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2023, 25:34, digital...