Ken Jacobs Movies

  • 2011
    Seeking the Monkey King

    Seeking the Monkey King

    Seeking the Monkey King

    4.82011HD

    Suggestion: Please see 'Another Occupation' before 'Seeking the Monkey King'. Contains flicker like many of my works; avoid if you have epilepsy or...

    Seeking the Monkey King
  • 1963
    Little Stabs at Happiness

    Little Stabs at Happiness

    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...

    Little Stabs at Happiness
  • 1975
    Urban Peasants

    Urban Peasants

    Urban Peasants

    01975HD

    Filmed by Stella Weiss and family, chance-assembled from uncut 100-foot film-rolls. Sound precedes and follows silent image (40 minutes of image plus...

    Urban Peasants
  • 2017
    Ulysses in the Subway

    Ulysses in the Subway

    Ulysses in the Subway

    02017HD

    A picturing of sound in 3D.

    Ulysses in the Subway
  • 2020
    Broadway Buildings II

    Broadway Buildings II

    Broadway Buildings II

    02020HD

    An Eternalism film.

    Broadway Buildings II
  • 2022
    Sergei Eisenstein Embossed

    Sergei Eisenstein Embossed

    Sergei Eisenstein Embossed

    02022HD

    Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925) digitally embossed

    Sergei Eisenstein Embossed
  • 2021
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    02021HD

    Part of his “Nervous System” performances, the artist’s skills as a projectionist were highlighted when he invented this specially...

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  • 2020
    Transparent Apartments

    Transparent Apartments

    Transparent Apartments

    02020HD

    An Eternalism film.

    Transparent Apartments
  • 2006
    Two Wrenching Departures

    Two Wrenching Departures

    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...

    Two Wrenching Departures
  • 1955
    Orchard Street

    Orchard Street

    Orchard Street

    6.81955HD

    This short film documents the daily life of the goings-on on Orchard Street, a commercial street in the Lower East Side New York City.

    Orchard Street
  • 2007
    Mosco Street Rapture

    Mosco Street Rapture

    Mosco Street Rapture

    02007HD

    3D eternalism by Ken Jacobs

    Mosco Street Rapture
  • 2009
    What Happened on 23rd Street in 1901

    What Happened on 23rd Street in 1901

    What Happened on 23rd Street in 1901

    02009HD

    Ken Jacobs applies three-dimensional digital animation to a century-old film by Edwin S. Porter.

    What Happened on 23rd Street in 1901
  • 2003
    Keeping an Eye on Stan

    Keeping an Eye on Stan

    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...

    Keeping an Eye on Stan
  • 1968
    Huge Pupils

    Huge Pupils

    Huge Pupils

    01968HD

    In 1968, Noren finished Huge Pupils, a gorgeous, sensuous, sexually outrageous visual study of his daily life, and part I of an ongoing series he...

    Huge Pupils
  • 1967
    Bill's Hat

    Bill's Hat

    Bill's Hat

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    "The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my...

    Bill's Hat
  • 2006
    The Surging Sea of Humanity

    The Surging Sea of Humanity

    The Surging Sea of Humanity

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    Stereograph of the crowd at the opening of the US Centennial Exposition of 1893. It turns into a movie. Into an enormous rugged and craggy 3-D...

    The Surging Sea of Humanity
  • 2017
    A Spin Through Night City

    A Spin Through Night City

    A Spin Through Night City

    02017HD

    Description by Ken Jacobs: A Spin Through Night City gets many visual elements spinning. Only daughter Nisi working at our computer knows how...

    A Spin Through Night City
  • 2008
    Amorous Interludes: His Favorite Wife Improved (or The Virtue Of Bad Reception)

    Amorous Interludes: His Favorite Wife Improved (or The Virtue Of Bad Reception)

    Amorous Interludes: His Favorite Wife Improved (or The Virtue Of Bad Reception)

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    An installment of Ken Jacobs series Amorous Interludes

    Amorous Interludes: His Favorite Wife Improved (or The Virtue Of Bad Reception)
  • 2016
    Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

    Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

    Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

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    "Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

    Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
  • 2011
    Another Occupation

    Another Occupation

    Another Occupation

    02011HD

    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