Movies: Ken Jacobs

1990
Chronometer (1990)
Chronometer
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Music composition by Harrison Birtwistle, 1971 tape realized by Peter Zinovieff. Nervous Magic Lantern performance by Ken jacobs, 1990....
2019
MOVING ROAD (2019)
MOVING ROAD
02019HD
An Eternalism film....
1969
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (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....
2011
Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin (2011)
Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
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A series of video letters between José Luis Guerín and Jonas Mekas....
2020
Water Balloon (2020)
Water Balloon
02020HD
An Eternalism film....
2020
Period Piece (2020)
Period Piece
02020HD
An Eternalism film....
2010
Fair And White: Parts I, II, III and Extra (2010)
Fair And White: Parts I, II, III and Extra
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“‘FAIR AND WHITE’ is the name of a line of beauty parlors in Paris largely catering to an African-French clientele. No-one apparently goes berserk seeing the signs. We were visiting Pip Chodorov in the Latin Quarter and found ourselves walking throug...
2005
Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 1888 (2005)
Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 1888
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Writes Ken Jacobs: "Louis-Aimé-Augustin Le Prince was the first person to create, in 1885, a single recording apparatus that photographed images in quick succession on George Eastman's new paper roll film. Le Prince applied for patents but the fix wa...
2019
THE WHOLE SHEBANG (2019)
THE WHOLE SHEBANG
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Black and white evokes nostalgia for The Great Depression. Things were so cheap, including lives. We see daredevils (desperate people) compete for money prizes. Baby prepares for WW2. [Originally a 70mm projection-performance, 1982, by Ken and Flo J...
2013
A Primer in Sky Socialism (2013)
A Primer in Sky Socialism
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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 crowd, the bridge, comprise the spectacle. The Bridge is particularly dear to us since the 'Sixties, when ...
1965
Naomi Is A Dream of Loveliness (1965)
Naomi Is A Dream of Loveliness
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Film portrait of Naomi Levine by Ken Jacobs...
2018
The Moments: Evening Boat Ride (2018)
The Moments: Evening Boat Ride
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3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs...
2020
Reading Society (2020)
Reading Society
02020HD
An Eternalism film....
2020
Rain Clouds (2020)
Rain Clouds
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An Eternalism film....
1991
Keaton's Cops (1991)
Keaton's Cops
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Avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs presents Buster Keaton's short silent comedy Cops (1922) as his own work by blacking-out approximately the top three-fourths or four-fifths of the frame....
2010
Lavender (2010)
Lavender
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A wholesome moment: Jonas Mekas, MM Serra, Ken Jacobs, and Flo Jacobs take lavender from a stranger's bush....
2002
Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence (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 burning buildings from Brooklyn phoned to say, “Get out. It can fall on you.” But we were upstate until ...
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...
2020
Fire Escape (2020)
Fire Escape
02020HD
An Eternalism film....
2020
Municipal Building Passage (2020)
Municipal Building Passage
02020HD
An Eternalism film....