Ken Jacobs Movies
- 2016
Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival02016HD
"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"
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- 2020
Reading Society
Reading Society02020HD
An Eternalism film.
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- 1965
Lisa and Joey in Connecticut
Lisa and Joey in Connecticut01965HD
Jacob's home movie portrait of Alfred Leslie and his family intercut with fragments of a Mickey Mouse cartoon.
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- 2026
A Date with Shirley
A Date with Shirley02026HD
Dir. Ken Jacobs. 2025, 48 mins. U.S. Digital. This colorful and cubist record of a Chinatown haircut is the final long-form work by the great...
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- 2017
A Spin Through Night City
A Spin Through Night City02017HD
Description by Ken Jacobs: A Spin Through Night City gets many visual elements spinning. Only daughter Nisi working at our computer knows how...
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- 2006
The Surging Sea of Humanity
The Surging Sea of Humanity02006HD
Stereograph of the crowd at the opening of the US Centennial Exposition of 1893. It turns into a movie. Into an enormous rugged and craggy 3-D...
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- 2014
Canopy
Canopy52014HD
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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- 2020
RECIPROCAL
RECIPROCAL02020HD
First two-cycle Eternalism. Interesting for the contrast of movements and depth configurations but also in indicating an end to the display and...
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- 2019
The Sky Socialist: The Environs
The Sky Socialist: The Environs02019HD
Fall into winter 1964, Urban Renewal forced us to move a few blocks to West of Broadway. Our Sky Socialist ‘set’ is still standing and...
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- 2009
The Day Was a Scorcher
The Day Was a Scorcher02009HD
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...
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- 2016
Hydroelectric Dam
Hydroelectric Dam02016HD
A study in lunging waves, in 3D.
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- 2010
The Near-Collision
The Near-Collision02010HD
3D film by Ken Jacobs
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- 1991
Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896
Opening the Nineteenth Century: 189671991HD
Found Footage avantgarde film.
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- 1977
Book of Splendors, Part Two, Book of Levers: Action at a Distance
Book of Splendors, Part Two, Book of Levers: Action at a Distance01977HD
Foreman’s longtime friend Ken Jacobs situated himself in the audience of the legendary Ontological-Hysteric theater space at 491 Broadway to...
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- 2005
Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 1888
Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 188802005HD
Writes Ken Jacobs: "Louis-Aimé-Augustin Le Prince was the first person to create, in 1885, a single recording apparatus that photographed...
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- 1970
Binghamton, My India
Binghamton, My India01970HD
“The film said something necessary at the time: the numinous is everywhere, even upstate Rust Belt Binghamton. The light was perfect, students...
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- 2017
Get Up and Go
Get Up and Go02017HD
Description by Ken Jacobs: Get Up and Go is a glimpse given dimension. No day is complete without a visit to Chinatown and on this day my movie...
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- 1964
We Stole Away
We Stole Away01964HD
An unfinished 8mm film from 1964
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- 2008
Alone at Last
Alone at Last02008HD
An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs
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- 2022
Sergei Eisenstein Embossed
Sergei Eisenstein Embossed02022HD
Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925) digitally embossed
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