Ken Jacobs Movies
- 1973

Horizons
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Working with Virgil’s four-part poem “Georgics” and Antonio Vivaldi’s concertos “The Four Seasons” as models,...
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- 2009

Berkeley To San Francisco
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Freeview 3D film by Ken Jacobs
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- 1964

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...
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- 2019

Once Upon a Planet
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Ken and Flo Jacobs walk from an MTA bus to their apartment in the icy rain. This is transformed by a 360° camera and digital effects into an...
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- 1961

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...
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- 2020

Fire Escape
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An Eternalism film.
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- 2015

Granular
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Experimental short film. Silent.
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- 2019

Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
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"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs
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- 2016

Ken Jacobs / JG Thirlwell @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
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"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"
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- 1967

Airshaft
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Single fixed-camera take looking from within darkened room, (camera within a camera) out through fire-escape door into vertical space between rears...
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- 2020

Hubble II
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An Eternalism film.
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- 2010

Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway
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An anaglyph 3-D film by Ken Jacobs
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- 2002

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...
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- 2007

Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World
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Originally presented as an installation in the exhibition Evolution 2007 at Lumen in Leeds, GIFT OF FIRE devotes fetishistic attention to what is...
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- 2016

Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
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"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"
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- 2011

Seeking the Monkey King
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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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- 2008

Return to the Scene of the Crime
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This is how the film begins, duck-on-a-leash to Little Bo Peep to the revealing of the too-busy full stage-set. Each gets their close-up and the many...
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- 1991

Quartet Number One
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Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.
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- 2023

Spasm
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Spasm (2023, 13:41, digital)
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- 1963

Scotch Tape
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Shot in 1959, Scotch Tape is Jack Smith's first film -- a joyous, three-minute romp, in color, using Peter Duchin's rhumba "Carinhoso" for its...
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