Ken Jacobs Trailers
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A pioneer of the American film avant-garde of the 1960s and '70s, Ken Jacobs is a central figure in post-war experimental cinema. From his first films of the late 1950s to his recent experiments with digital video, his investigations and innovations have influenced countless artists.
A New Yorker by birth, Jacobs graduated from City University to find himself in the midst of the downtown art scene of the 1960s, which included artists Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol, beat writers Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac; and the experimental theater troupes of Trisha Brown and Yvonne Rainer. Although Jacobs had studied painting with Hans Hoffman, he quickly gravitated to film, finding kindred spirits in radical filmmakers such as Jonas Mekas and Hollis Frampton. An early friendship with Jack Smith yielded several collaborations, including the seminal underground films Blonde Cobra (which Jonas Mekas dubbed "the masterpiece of Baudelairean cinema") and Little Stabs at Happiness, as well as a Provincetown beach-based live show, The Human Wreckage Review.
Most Popular Ken Jacobs Trailers
Total trailers found: 309
22 February 1986
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
23 July 1965
Jacob's home movie portrait of Alfred Leslie and his family intercut with fragments of a Mickey Mouse cartoon.
06 April 2020
An Eternalism film.
12 May 2020
An Eternalism film.
23 June 2017
Description by Ken Jacobs: Get Up and Go is a glimpse given dimension. No day is complete without a visit to Chinatown and on this day my movie camera caught a woman rising from a bench.
05 April 2012
Jacobs documents a New York street vendor, taking a short interaction between the vendor and a customer and protracting it into a strobing, throbbing, pulsing meditation on movement and light.
22 January 2016
"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"
01 January 1968
Three identical prints of a single 100 foot fixed-camera take are shown from beginning to end-roll light-flare, with a few feet of blackness preceding/bridging/following the rolls.
09 September 2008
This is how the film begins, duck-on-a-leash to Little Bo Peep to the revealing of the too-busy full stage-set.
01 September 2010
An anaglyph 3-D film by Ken Jacobs
13 January 2020
An Eternalism film.
07 July 2009
Jacobs documents the work of artist Ronald Gonzalez in his Binghamton, NY home and studio space. Producing more of an abstract portrait than a documentary, Jacobs follows Gonzalez as he guides his camera through an expansive collection of eerie and affecting sculptures, figures made of found objects and animal bodies, beautifully manipulated scrap metal, or tangles of fur and string.
23 June 2017
Description by Ken Jacobs: A Spin Through Night City gets many visual elements spinning. Only daughter Nisi working at our computer knows how difficult it is to get both foreground—rain on the cab window—and background -the city streets—in focus at the same time.
05 February 2015
Abstract short in Jacob's current 3D style.
13 February 2014
A reworking of 10 seconds from Entrée d`une noce à l`église (Entrance of a wedding at the church), the 1896 Lumiere brothers film.
04 April 2014
Found footage film by Ken Jacobs of Pygmalion starring Leslie Howard with various digital glitches.
01 September 2010
Sequel to Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway
01 January 2005
This work is derived from one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use neither film nor video.
12 February 2020
An Eternalism film.
31 December 1964
Jacobs's 1st Window is a dazzling balletic breaking-up of the cinematic frame.
17 February 2008
Here Jacobs revisits the original 1905 source material of his celebrated 1969 structuralist film, Tom Tom the Piper's Son.
01 January 2009
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 trudge with the rest of us, but still expecting to be pushed around on wheels," frolicking in a sun-drenched Rome in the 1970s.
15 May 2020
An Eternalism film.
01 January 2014
Studying painting with Hans Hofmann had sensitized me to depth phenomena, to strange readings of depth including the most unnatural: flat.
05 May 1964
An 8mm film by Ken Jacobs made after his 16mm camera was stolen
17 April 2020
An Eternalism film.
23 September 2019
Jacobs’s hypnotic “3-D” adaptation of New York 1911, a long-forgotten Swedish documentary restored by MoMA in 2017, is representative of his current work.
07 May 2020
An Eternalism film.
01 September 2008
3D film by Ken Jacobs
01 January 2013
"Waiting, waiting, for a bus to carry us a mile downtown. We often give up and walk. When we commit ourselves to waiting the bus usually appears with a second bus, empty, trailing by a block.
08 October 1990
Music composition by Harrison Birtwistle, 1971 tape realized by Peter Zinovieff.
Nervous Magic Lantern performance by Ken jacobs, 1990.
01 January 2021
2021, 6:23, digital. Part of the Nervous Magic Lantern films.
16 September 2019
Ken Jacobs' black and white abstract short from 2019, in five parts.
13 August 2004
This work is a demonstration of one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use neither film nor video.
14 January 2017
World Premiere -- Museum of Moving Image 1/14/2017
03 March 1970
“The film said something necessary at the time: the numinous is everywhere, even upstate Rust Belt Binghamton.
30 October 2021
“All hallucinations of Paradise Lost come from the longing to levitate. Vision is lightship and shg
01 January 2023
A 2023 Ken Jacobs Eternalism
28 April 2020
An Eternalism film.
15 April 2020
An Eternalism film.
15 April 2020
An Eternalism film.
11 January 2020
An Eternalism film.
01 September 2010
3D film by Ken Jacobs
06 April 2020
An Eternalism film.
01 January 1969
"Flat image (of snowbound suburban housing tract) blossoms into 3D only when viewer places Eye Opener before the right eye.
22 April 2020
An Eternalism film.
01 January 1962
Shot in 1959, Scotch Tape is Jack Smith's first film -- a joyous, three-minute romp, in color, using Peter Duchin's rhumba "Carinhoso" for its soundtrack.
05 May 2011
Still shots of a revolving door at New York City's Church Street Station Post Office are edited together to create a sense of movement, redoubled by the piece's three-dimensionality when viewed with the proper glasses, as the opening titles suggest.
18 January 2019
Ken Jacobs applies his patented Eternalism process to 3D images he took of Jackson Pollock's 1954 splatter painting.
10 October 2009
A still image of a palm-lined wooden walkway is edited together with mirror-images, close-ups, upside-down renderings, and smaller, framed versions to create strobe-like visuals that are cut together to increasingly frenetic effect.
23 June 2017
Description by Ken Jacobs: Along the Elevated is an expanse of city architecture in delicious depth (depth is not only what things exist in, its ins and outs speak to us).
01 August 2021
40 minute 3D work.
01 January 2019
One of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.
01 January 2021
One of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.
12 January 2020
An Eternalism film.
06 April 2020
An Eternalism film.
06 June 1986
An unfinished 3D film using the Pulfrich filter. "We travel by train through the mountains of central and northern Italy, 3-D country; the Alps, there are a lot of them.
24 December 2019
An Eternalism film.
13 May 2011
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 characteristically angry and awestruck Jacobs’s fare.
05 May 2020
An Eternalism film.
