Ken Jacobs focus
Overview of films
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A Tom, Tom Chaser
“I do an electronic riff on the MoMA print in A Tom Tom Chaser, concluding the NTSC edition. I’d been supervising a new digitizing of
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Blonde Cobra
* Images gathered by Bob Fleischner, sound-film composed by Ken Jacobs. “Jack says I made the film too heavy. It was his and Bob’s inte
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The Whirled
Featuring Jack Smith 1. Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice (1956) 2. Little Cobra Dance (1956) 3. Hunch Your Back (1963) 4. Death Of P
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Star Spangled to Death – Part 1
Ken Jacob’s life’s work, an epic of the ‘underground’ cinema. A ‘desperately beautiful immersion in childish behaviou
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Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son
Jacobs’s camera closes in on a 1905 film to better ascertain the infinite richness, searching out incongruities, delighting in the whole bizarre hu
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Little Stabs at Happiness
“Material was cut in as it came out of the camera, embarrassing moments intact. 100′ rolls timed well with music on old 78’s. I w
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Polemics on Ice
The very first chance to see one of Jacobs live Nervous System Magic Lantern performances in Europe. The manipulation of pure light and dark, the e
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Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy
A rare chance to see one of Ken Jacobs’ Nervous System Film Performances in which, using his own specially developed projection system, he pr
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Perfect Film
TV newscast discards from 1965 relating to the assassination of Malcom X, out-takes of history reprinted as found in a Canal Street bin (with the e
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