Ken Jacobs Movies
- 2026
Downtown Loft with Skylights
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In this late work (made with Azazel Jacobs’s participation), Ken Jacobs returns to an earlier (and frequent) subject, the bric-a-brac-laden...
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- 2019
MOVING ROAD
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An Eternalism film.
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- 2009
The Day Was a Scorcher
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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
Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
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"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"
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- 1996
The Georgetown Loop
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First screened as part of Jacobs' "Nervous System" film performance, The Georgetown Loop is based on an archival film from 1903, which Jacobs pairs...
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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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- 2013
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #2
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"2013. USA. Directed by Ken Jacobs. With technical assistance by Nisi Jacobs. Part two of four. “Joys…began on the corner of Broadway...
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- 2003
Nervous Ken
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In NERVOUS KEN, experimental film legend Ken Jacobs is "interviewed" by my urbane 12-year old M.C., Emma Bernstein. Envisioning an exploration of the...
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- 2023
Book of Eternalisms 1-6
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A multi-part series of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.
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- 2011
The Green Wave
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A stereograph of an ocean wave breaking is suspended in time as it reshapes in time and in depth. 3-D for both two eyed and single-eyed viewers.
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- 2019
Chaos Is Order Misunderstood
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The Nervous Magic Lantern is a projection device I came up with in the year 2000. With assistance from wife Flo (Florence) we have been performing...
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- 2013
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #1
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"Waiting, waiting, for a bus to carry us a mile downtown. We often give up and walk. When we commit ourselves to waiting the bus usually appears with...
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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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- 2017
Capitalism Defeats Life on Earth, Cab in Rain
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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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- 2009
Berkeley To San Francisco
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Freeview 3D film by Ken Jacobs
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- 2020
DeKooning Passed
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An Eternalism film.
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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...
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- 2009
Hot Dogs At The Met
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Using the same stereoscopic animation technique of Jacobs' recent works Capitalism: Slavery (2006) and Nymph (2007), which he calls "a vigorous 3-D...
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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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- 2020
Period Piece
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An Eternalism film.
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