Ken Jacobs Movies
- 1964
Window
Window4.51964HD
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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- 2020
Brick Building with Red and Green Windows
Brick Building with Red and Green Windows02020HD
An Eternalism film.
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- 2010
Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta?
Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta?52010HD
The documentary’s starting point is the discovery and restoration of a rare and unknown photography reel reproduced from a mutoscope film, made...
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- 2013
A Primer in Sky Socialism
A Primer in Sky Socialism02013HD
Each new year Flo and I join the young and many-languaged crowd walking to the top of Brooklyn Bridge ostensibly for the fireworks. Fact is the...
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- 2020
Another Day in Days of Yore
Another Day in Days of Yore02020HD
An Eternalism film.
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- 1995
Make Light On Film
Make Light On Film01995HD
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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- 2019
PAPPY SEES 3D, TOO
PAPPY SEES 3D, TOO02019HD
An Eternalism film.
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- 1991
Quartet Number One
Quartet Number One7.51991HD
Quartet Number One (1991) 8 min.
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- 2014
Canopy
Canopy52014HD
Ken Jacobs’ most recent stroboscopic work transforms a typical New York street scaffolding scene into a mesmeric, Christo-esque merry-go-round.
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- 2007
Capitalism: Child Labor
Capitalism: Child Labor62007HD
A digital animation of a Victorian stereoscopic photograph of a 19th-century factory floor, crowded with machinery and child workers. Filmmaker Ken...
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- 2022
When Timofeev Moves Everything Moves
When Timofeev Moves Everything Moves02022HD
2022, 12:43, digital. Drawing by Victor Tomofeev, "A Skater's City"
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- 2017
A Spin Through Night City
A Spin Through Night City02017HD
Description by Ken Jacobs: A Spin Through Night City gets many visual elements spinning. Only daughter Nisi working at our computer knows how...
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- 2020
Facade with Face
Facade with Face02020HD
An Eternalism film.
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- 2019
THE WHOLE SHEBANG
THE WHOLE SHEBANG02019HD
Black and white evokes nostalgia for The Great Depression. Things were so cheap, including lives. We see daredevils (desperate people) compete for...
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- 2014
The Guests
The Guests62014HD
A reworking of 10 seconds from Entrée d`une noce à l`église (Entrance of a wedding at the church), the 1896 Lumiere brothers...
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- 2012
Emma's Dilemma
Emma's Dilemma12012HD
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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- 1967
For Life, Against the War
For Life, Against the War61967HD
First shown on January 30, 1967, FOR LIFE AGAINST THE WAR was an open-call, collective statement from American independent filmmakers disparate in...
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- 2023
From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight02023HD
A strobing deconstruction of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight.
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- 2019
CRUSH
CRUSH02019HD
An Eternalism film.
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- 2019
Failure
Failure02019HD
"fails to distinguish art from history." An eternalism film by Ken Jacobs.
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