Ken Jacobs Movies
- 1956
Little Cobra Dance
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Jack Smith descends a fire escape in a makeshift "Arabian" costume and improvises increasingly frenetic choreography.
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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
Hanky Panky January 1902
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An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs
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- 2020
City Foliage
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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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- 2020
Neon Sign
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An Eternalism film.
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- 2006
Pushcarts of Eternity Street
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Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs
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- 2016
I'm Telling You
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Features two old men talking on the Lower East Side; one loud mouth, the other bizarrely amiable, in 3D.
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- 2002
Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence
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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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- 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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- 2015
Floral
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Experimental short silent film (black & white).
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- 2025
Book of Eternalisms 39
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No description from the artist
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- 1991
Quartet Number One
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Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.
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- 2019
Failure
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"fails to distinguish art from history." An eternalism film by Ken Jacobs.
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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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- 2010
Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two
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Sequel to Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway
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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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- 1975
Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture
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In the backyard with the inimitable Jerry Sims. Shot in 8mm in 1975, edited and transferred to 16mm in 1987.
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- 2022
Real Action Figures
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Illusions of Depth in Flux
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- 2009
Brain Operations
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An homage to Op-Art, Brain Operations was inspired by an optical illusion produced by checkered tiles on the artist's bathroom floor. "When editing...
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