Ken Jacobs Movie Trailers
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Emma's Dilemma Trailer (2012)
18 June 2012
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 and essences of such downtown luminaries as Richard Foreman, Ken Jacobs, and Carolee Schneemann, Hills’s cinematic inventions literally turn the screen upside down and inside out.
Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise Trailer (2005)
01 November 2005
A story told by director Ken Jacobs but without conventional storyline. Using a modified magic lantern, an early type of image projector developed in the 17th century, he morphs, flickering images that look like photo-negatives.
Empty Seats Trailer (2015)
20 October 2015
3D Polaroid *Note: Must be viewed on 3D monitor with polaroid glasses Duration: 6'24 Year: 2015 d
Ken Jacobs / Tom Chiu of Flux Quartet @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival Trailer (2016)
24 January 2016
"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"
New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903 Trailer (2007)
13 March 2007
First created and presented as a Tzadik New Jewish Culture offering in 1993. First performed live as a Nervous System performance with Catherine Jauniaux performing onstage, this version has been reconstructed from scratch (film-frame by film-frame) on the computer.
Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence Trailer (2002)
11 April 2002
Our daughter Nisi and son Aza happened to both be staying at our loft on Chambers Street when fundamentalist Islam struck.
The Roses Trailer (2011)
05 April 2011
The Roses is a meditation on art, aging, and the nature of listening, as well a conversation between generations and between artists.
Nissan Ariana Window Trailer (1969)
08 September 1969
"NISSAN ARIANA WINDOW is 3/4's of our daughter's name. She was just kid when these pictures were taken.
Joan Mitchell: Departures Trailer (2019)
23 May 2019
"Details of paintings by Joan Mitchell undergo Eternalizing. The process introduces emphatic flicker that helps create illusions of depth, even for a single eye.
The Doctor's Dream Trailer (1977)
14 August 1977
"The editing procedure was to count the number of shots and start the film off with the numerically s
Two Wrenching Departures Trailer (2006)
01 January 2006
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 footage from Jacobs’s Star Spangled to Death showing Smith perambulating through downtown Manhattan, as well as views of Fleischner from Jacobs’s 1961 short The Whirled.
Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta? Trailer (2010)
03 October 2010
The documentary’s starting point is the discovery and restoration of a rare and unknown photography reel reproduced from a mutoscope film, made in 1901 in London, about Santos Dumont (1873 – 1932).
Little Stabs at Happiness Trailer (1963)
16 September 1963
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 the footage.
From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight Trailer (2023)
09 April 2023
A strobing deconstruction of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight.
Once Upon a Planet Trailer (2019)
01 May 2019
Ken and Flo Jacobs walk from an MTA bus to their apartment in the icy rain. This is transformed by a 360° camera and digital effects into an unforgettable trek on the actual planet.
Brain Operations Trailer (2009)
09 September 2009
An homage to Op-Art, Brain Operations was inspired by an optical illusion produced by checkered tiles on the artist's bathroom floor.
The Scenic Route Trailer (2008)
31 August 2008
"One of the nice things about movies was you could keep them at a distance. Movies knew their place. We were dimensional, they were flat, so it was easy to know which was which.
Ken Jacobs / Victoria Keddie @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival Trailer (2016)
24 January 2016
"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"
Ken Jacobs / diNMachine @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival Trailer (2016)
22 January 2016
"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis Trailer (2007)
11 April 2007
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's performances and films punctuate interviews with artists, critics, friends and foes to create an engaging portrait of the artist.
The Sky Socialist: The Environs Trailer (2019)
15 June 2019
Fall into winter 1964, Urban Renewal forced us to move a few blocks to West of Broadway. Our Sky Socialist ‘set’ is still standing and I’m drawn back to document more.
Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice Trailer (1956)
01 January 1956
Short film with Jack Smith as the mysterious leader of an even-more-mysterious cult, garbed in pseudo-papal regalia and adorned with jewelry and makeup.
Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival Trailer (2016)
23 January 2016
"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"
Wire Fence Trailer (2014)
12 November 2014
The diamond patterns in the wire fencing for construction on his street inspired Ken Jacobs’s latest astonishing 3-D extravaganza.
Nervous Lantern at Kill Your Timid Notion Festival Trailer (2007)
14 April 2007
This event was part of Arika’s Kill Your Timid Notion festival in 2007 at Dundee Contemporary Arts.
Abstract Eternalism Trailer (2021)
05 August 2021
Premiere at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on August 5, 2021.
Huge Pupils Trailer (1968)
28 May 1968
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 would come to call The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse.
Airshaft Trailer (1967)
01 January 1967
Single fixed-camera take looking from within darkened room, (camera within a camera) out through fire-escape door into vertical space between rears of downtown N.
Perfect Film Trailer (1985)
13 March 1985
Directed by Ken Jacobs, 1985. In Jacobs' own words: "I wish more stuff was available in its raw state, as primary source material for anyone to consider, and to leave for others in just that way, the evidence uncontaminated by compulsive proprietary misapplied artistry, "editing", the purposeful "pointing things out" that cuts a road straight and narrow through the cine-jungle; we barrel through thinking we’re going somewhere and miss it all.