Ken Jacobs Movies
- 2012

Street Vendor
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Jacobs documents a New York street vendor, taking a short interaction between the vendor and a customer and protracting it into a strobing,...
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- 2020

Bison
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An Eternalism film.
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- 2003

Keeping an Eye on Stan
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The late, legendary experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage is the subject of this video portrait by his friends Ken Jacobs and Nisi Jacobs.The video...
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- 2020

Barber
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An Eternalism film.
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- 2016

Lurking
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3D Eternalism film by Ken Jacobs
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- 2009

Brook
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In this short and beautiful piece, Jacobs creates a flicker effect by editing close-up footage of a stream together with sections of black, producing...
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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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- 2007

Capitalism: Slavery
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In Capitalism: Slavery, Jacobs uses a Victorian stereograph (a double-photograph) of slaves picking cotton under the watchful eye of a white overseer...
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- 2019

Joan Mitchell: Departures
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"Details of paintings by Joan Mitchell undergo Eternalizing. The process introduces emphatic flicker that helps create illusions of depth, even for a...
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- 1995

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...
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- 2022

Real Action Figures
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Illusions of Depth in Flux
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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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- 1963

Little Stabs at Happiness
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Little Stabs at Happiness is a collection of silent shorts Jacobs shot from the period of 1959-1963. Jaunty tunes (and a somber reflection) accompany...
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- 2007

Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World
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Avant-garde master Ken Jacobs' dizzying digital reinvention of a 1903 Edison "actuality" stretches and bends the one-minute film to an incredible,...
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- 2015

Afternoon Tide
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3D Polaroid *Note: Must be viewed on 3D monitor with polaroid glasses Duration: 9' Year: 2015 Sound
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- 2007

Nervous Lantern at Kill Your Timid Notion Festival
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This event was part of Arika’s Kill Your Timid Notion festival in 2007 at Dundee Contemporary Arts.
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- 2011

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...
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- 2013

The Eternal Courtship
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In celebration of his 80th birthday, here is: THE ETERNAL COURTSHIP (an ipad short) For Ken and Flo Jacobs, with love and affection from all of us...
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- 2009

Berkeley To San Francisco
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Freeview 3D film by Ken Jacobs
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- 2012

Emma's Dilemma
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Henry Hills’s Emma’s Dilemma reinvents the portrait for the age of digital reproduction. In a set of tour-de-force probes into the images...
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