Ken Jacobs Movies

1961
The Death of P'town
The Death of P'town
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Shot in Provincetown in the summer of '61 with the goal of funding a larger project, the film was never completed due to a violent argument between...
1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
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A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
2023
From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
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A strobing deconstruction of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight.
2023
Other Urban Lives
Other Urban Lives
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Ken Jacobs applying a strobing effect to NYC trees.
2009
Gravity Is Tops
Gravity Is Tops
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A stereo-photo of an ocean wave slowly turns and churns. The hidden forces of Cinema conspire with an instant of history to produce actions that...
1997
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation
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Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....
2008
Amorous Interludes: His Favorite Wife Improved (or The Virtue Of Bad Reception)
Amorous Interludes: His Favorite Wife Improved (or The Virtue Of Bad Reception)
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An installment of Ken Jacobs series Amorous Interludes
1968
Soft Rain
Soft Rain
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Three identical prints of a single 100 foot fixed-camera take are shown from beginning to end-roll light-flare, with a few feet of blackness...
2002
A Tom Tom Chaser
A Tom Tom Chaser
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A Tom Tom Chaser is Jacobs' 2002 poetic riff on the transformation of his classic film Tom Tom the Piper's Son from chemical to electronic form...
2008
Alone at Last
Alone at Last
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An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs
1985
Home Movies 1971-81
Home Movies 1971-81
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Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
1963
Blonde Cobra
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...
2020
Bison
Bison
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An Eternalism film.
2008
The Scenic Route
The Scenic Route
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"One of the nice things about movies was you could keep them at a distance. Movies knew their place. We were dimensional, they were flat, so it was...
2009
Brain Operations
Brain Operations
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An homage to Op-Art, Brain Operations was inspired by an optical illusion produced by checkered tiles on the artist's bathroom floor. "When editing...
2005
Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye Molly
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...
2019
Joan Mitchell: Departures
Joan Mitchell: Departures
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"Details of paintings by Joan Mitchell undergo Eternalizing. The process introduces emphatic flicker that helps create illusions of depth, even for a...
2014
Wire Fence
Wire Fence
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The diamond patterns in the wire fencing for construction on his street inspired Ken Jacobs’s latest astonishing 3-D extravaganza.
1964
Window
Window
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The moving camera shapes the screen image with great purposefulness, using the frame of a window as fulcrum upon which to wheel about the exterior...
1985
Perfect Film
Perfect Film
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Directed by Ken Jacobs, 1985. In Jacobs' own words: "I wish more stuff was available in its raw state, as primary source material for anyone to...