Ken Jacobs Movies

  • 2007
    Nymph

    Nymph

    Nymph

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    An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

    Nymph
  • 2007
    Hanky Panky January 1902

    Hanky Panky January 1902

    Hanky Panky January 1902

    02007HD

    An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

    Hanky Panky January 1902
  • 2008
    Elbow Dance

    Elbow Dance

    Elbow Dance

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    3D film by Ken Jacobs

    Elbow Dance
  • 2010
    Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two

    Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two

    Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two

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    Sequel to Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway

    Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two
  • 2010
    Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway

    Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway

    Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway

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    An anaglyph 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

    Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway
  • 2009
    Berkeley To San Francisco

    Berkeley To San Francisco

    Berkeley To San Francisco

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    Freeview 3D film by Ken Jacobs

    Berkeley To San Francisco
  • 2009
    “Slow is Beauty”—Rodin

    “Slow is Beauty”—Rodin

    “Slow is Beauty”—Rodin

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    Anaglyph 3D film by Ken Jacobs based on a 1974 shadow play performance.

    “Slow is Beauty”—Rodin
  • 2007
    Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World

    Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World

    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...

    Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World
  • 2011
    Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman

    Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman

    Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman

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    A young woman stands by a car while scenes from metropolitan life flash by.

    Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
  • 1956
    Little Cobra Dance

    Little Cobra Dance

    Little Cobra Dance

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    Jack Smith descends a fire escape in a makeshift "Arabian" costume and improvises increasingly frenetic choreography.

    Little Cobra Dance
  • 2011
    Another Occupation

    Another Occupation

    Another Occupation

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    A stroboscopic train ride along a jungle stream. Asian military men appear with their pith-helmets, keeping the ferns, trees, monkeys, natives in...

    Another Occupation
  • 2009
    The Day Was a Scorcher

    The Day Was a Scorcher

    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...

    The Day Was a Scorcher
  • 2011
    America at War, The Home Front: Film Opening

    America at War, The Home Front: Film Opening

    America at War, The Home Front: Film Opening

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    A sly take on recent US foreign policy in the Middle East, 3D footage of the exit from NYFF’s premiere of The Social Network makes for...

    America at War, The Home Front: Film Opening
  • 2010
    A Loft

    A Loft

    A Loft

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    Jacobs applies his exacting digital techniques to footage of his New York City working and living space.

    A Loft
  • 2002
    The Sky Socialist: Flight

    The Sky Socialist: Flight

    The Sky Socialist: Flight

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    Ken Jacobs short film eventually incorporated into The Sky Socialist.

    The Sky Socialist: Flight
  • 2005
    Incendiary Cinema

    Incendiary Cinema

    Incendiary Cinema

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    "The image on the screen flickers unsteadily; the rhythm is unsettling: black/white, black/white, white/black. The film cuts abruptly to a...

    Incendiary Cinema
  • 1964
    1st Window

    1st Window

    1st Window

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    Jacobs's 1st Window is a dazzling balletic breaking-up of the cinematic frame.

    1st Window
  • 2005
    Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 1888

    Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 1888

    Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 1888

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    Writes Ken Jacobs: "Louis-Aimé-Augustin Le Prince was the first person to create, in 1885, a single recording apparatus that photographed...

    Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 1888
  • 2005
    Insistent Clamor

    Insistent Clamor

    Insistent Clamor

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    This work is derived from one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use neither film...

    Insistent Clamor
  • 1995
    Make Light On Film

    Make Light On Film

    Make Light On Film

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    Berlin documented by the US after WW2, recorded again in 1986 by Flo and Ken feigning innocence when passing by elevated train between Capitalist...

    Make Light On Film