Ken Jacobs Movies
- 2023
From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight02023HD
A strobing deconstruction of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight.
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- 2017
Capitalism Defeats Life on Earth, Cab in Rain
Capitalism Defeats Life on Earth, Cab in Rain02017HD
One of Ken Jacobs' eternalism films that explores themes of environmental destruction and capitalist greed through a 3D, suspended-time, stereoscopic...
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- 2020
Brick Building with Red and Green Windows
Brick Building with Red and Green Windows02020HD
An Eternalism film.
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- 1973
Horizons
Horizons8.51973HD
Working with Virgil’s four-part poem “Georgics” and Antonio Vivaldi’s concertos “The Four Seasons” as models,...
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- 1961
The Death of P'town
The Death of P'town101961HD
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...
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- 2023
Tourists of the Familiar 15
Tourists of the Familiar 1502023HD
Part of a series of Eternalisms
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- 2002
Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence
Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence92002HD
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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- 2012
Emma's Dilemma
Emma's Dilemma12012HD
Henry Hills’s Emma’s Dilemma reinvents the portrait for the age of digital reproduction. In a set of tour-de-force probes into the images...
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- 1967
Bill's Hat
Bill's Hat01967HD
"The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my...
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- 2005
Let There Be Whistle Blowers
Let There Be Whistle Blowers02005HD
A train passes though a tunnel and hurtles on to a station. Time and space are toyed with, things enter an impossible state of ongoing movement while...
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- 1991
Quartet Number One
Quartet Number One7.51991HD
Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.
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- 2011
Seeking the Monkey King
Seeking the Monkey King4.82011HD
Suggestion: Please see 'Another Occupation' before 'Seeking the Monkey King'. Contains flicker like many of my works; avoid if you have epilepsy or...
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- 2021
In Front of Anthology
In Front of Anthology02021HD
2021, 1 minute 58 seconds, digital.
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- 1999
New York Street Trolleys 1900
New York Street Trolleys 190001999HD
In this unique document, Jacobs demonstrates one of his live, multi-projection "Nervous System" film performances in real time. (The Nervous System...
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- 2009
Berkeley To San Francisco
Berkeley To San Francisco02009HD
Freeview 3D film by Ken Jacobs
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- 1970
Depth for One Eye or Two
Depth for One Eye or Two01970HD
An eternalism.
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- 1955
Orchard Street
Orchard Street6.81955HD
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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- 1995
Make Light On Film
Make Light On Film01995HD
Berlin documented by the US after WW2, recorded again in 1986 by Flo and Ken feigning innocence when passing by elevated train between Capitalist...
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- 2023
For James Otis
For James Otis02023HD
A Ken Jacobs eternalism made using a dazzling iPhone panorama from James Otis.
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- 2007
New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903
New York Ghetto Fishmarket 190362007HD
First created and presented as a Tzadik New Jewish Culture offering in 1993. First performed live as a Nervous System performance with Catherine...
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