Screenplay: Ken Jacobs

Direction Ken Jacobs

Direction Ken Jacobs

Synopsis This digital video largely consists of valleys and hills of what look like crumpled foil that Mr. Jacobs, through his manipulations, has turned into landscapes that shift, undulate and seem to pop off the screen as if in 3D. Often...

Direction Ken Jacobs

Cast Jack Smith

Synopsis A film in four parts. In "In the Room", a man and a woman in outlandish garb are sitting in a claw-foot bathtub smoking, while the man abuses a doll in various ways. In "They Stopped to Think", the filmmaker...

Direction Ken Jacobs

Cast Ken Jacobs · Jack Smith

Synopsis A man fondles objects, looks at himself in the mirror, poses in different clothes, smiles and makes faces at the camera while his voice on the soundtrack speaks of his despair, makes impressionistic statements and little songs, quotes greta garbo...

Direction Ken Jacobs

Synopsis Ken Jacobs writes, "In 1969, Tom, Tom, The Piper's Son seized me, with a new film almost incidentally a result. Placing the 1905 Mutoscope original in the computer allows for an unbounded freedom of study and playfulness. Now I seize...

Direction Ken Jacobs

Direction Ken Jacobs

Synopsis 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.

Direction Ken Jacobs

Synopsis Created and presented for the first time as an offer of the New Jewish Culture of Tzadik in 1993. It was first performed live as a performance of the Nervous System with Catherine Jauniaux performing on stage, this version has...

Direction Ken Jacobs

Direction Ken Jacobs

Synopsis Ken Jacobs’s most elusive and mysterious film is at once an allegory of movie-making, a demonstration of 8mm versatility, and a celebration of a now vanished neighborhood beneath the Brooklyn Bridge.

Direction Ken Jacobs

Synopsis Mountain ranges lighter than air.

Direction Ken Jacobs

Synopsis A stereograph of the crowd at the opening of the US Centennial Exposition of 1893 turns into a movie, into an enormous rugged and craggy 3D landscape. Many laws were broken in the making of this movie, beginning with laws...

Direction Ken Jacobs

Synopsis An 1897 Lumiere short film is reworked to provide the illusion of 3D.

Direction Ken Jacobs

Cast Jack Smith · Carolee Schneemann · Ken Jacobs

Direction Ken Jacobs

Synopsis The photos are shown as in "A Trip Down Mount Tamalpais", the Paper Print Collection, Library of Congress. Optically copied by Sam Bush, Western Cine Lab., Denver, from the 16mm to 35mm mailbox format to allow double image duplication in...

Direction Ken Jacobs

Synopsis In "Celestial Subway Lines / Salvaging Noise" its story is told by director Ken Jacobs but without the conventional storyline. Using a modified magic lantern, an early type of image projector developed in the 17th century, he morphs, flickering images...

Direction Ken Jacobs

Cast Jack Smith · Jerry Sims · Gib Taylor · Bill Carpenter

Synopsis Combining found-films with Jacobs' own more-or-less staged filming, Star Spangled to Death pictures a stolen and dangerously sold-out America, allowing examples of popular culture to self-indict. Racial and religious insanity, monopolization of wealth and the purposeful dumbing down of citizens...

Direction Ken Jacobs

Synopsis 'Day and Night' was photographed with a still-camera with close-up attachment. Two close images were taken, with the subject -a heather plant- on a turning platform. The heather blossoms are tiny, on average less than 1/8 inch in size. Color...

Direction Ken Jacobs

Synopsis "Influenced by avantgarde artist-refugees from Europe, non-representational art dominated the art market after WW2 and pictorial comment on social conditions, popular before the war and still vital in some of Picasso’s work, went out of fashion. For the owners threatened...

Direction Ken Jacobs

Synopsis Jacobs applies his exacting digital techniques to footage of his New York City working and living space.