Ken Jacobs Movies
- 1955
Orchard Street
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This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.
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- 2023
Writhing City
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2023, 25:34, digital
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- 2020
Street Commerce II
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An Eternalism film.
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- 1976
Spaghetti Aza
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Silent film by Ken Jacobs featuring his son asleep at the table then being put to bed.
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- 2019
Failure
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"fails to distinguish art from history." An eternalism film by Ken Jacobs.
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- 2011
Turbulent Waters
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An experiment in 3D abetted by a Pulfrich filter, originally theorized in the 1920s. Features water cinematography by Phil Solomon.
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- 2007
Mosco Street Rapture
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3D eternalism by Ken Jacobs
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- 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 Jacobs. From THRILLS AND CHILLS (Castle Films, c....
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- 1975
Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture
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In the backyard with the inimitable Jerry Sims. Shot in 8mm in 1975, edited and transferred to 16mm in 1987.
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- 2023
Tourists of the Familiar 1
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Part of a series of Eternalisms
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- 2020
Working Girls (short)
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An Eternalism film.
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- 2015
Batchellor’s Dog and Beach
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Anaglyph 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.
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- 2002
The Sky Socialist: Flight
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Ken Jacobs short film eventually incorporated into The Sky Socialist.
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- 2021
A Small Misunderstanding
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2021, 6:23, digital. Part of the Nervous Magic Lantern films.
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- 2006
Two Wrenching Departures
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Made in response to the death of his friends Bob Fleischner and Jack Smith, who died within one week of each other in 1989, this feature includes footage from Jacobs’s Star Spangled to Death showing Smith perambulating through downtown Manhattan, as well as views of Fleischner from Jacobs’s...
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- 2007
Popeye Sees 3-D, TOO
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A film in the Popeye Series by Ken Jacobs
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- 1994
Bitemporal Vision: The Sea
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'Blinking' 2D rendition of one of Ken Jacobs' Nervous System performances first presented in 1994.
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- 2016
Mosco Street 2
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Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.
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- 2007
Nervous Lantern at Kill Your Timid Notion Festival
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This event was part of Arika’s Kill Your Timid Notion festival in 2007 at Dundee Contemporary Arts.
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- 2014
Canopy
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Ken Jacobs’ most recent stroboscopic work transforms a typical New York street scaffolding scene into a mesmeric, Christo-esque merry-go-round.
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