Ken Jacobs focus
Overview of films
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Blonde Cobra
Ken Jacobs | 33' | USA | -
* 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 intention… -
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Little Stabs at Happiness
Ken Jacobs | 15' | USA | -
“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 was… -
Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy
Ken Jacobs | 80' | USA | -
A rare chance to see one of Ken Jacobs’ Nervous System Film Performances in which, using his own specially developed projection system, he presents a -
Perfect Film
Ken Jacobs | 21' | USA | -
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… -
Polemics on Ice
Ken Jacobs | 65' | USA | -
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… -
Star Spangled to Death – Part 1
Ken Jacobs | 200' | USA | -
Ken Jacob’s life’s work, an epic of the ‘underground’ cinema. A ‘desperately beautiful immersion in childish behaviour and political despair’ with the -
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A Tom, Tom Chaser
Ken Jacobs | 11' | USA | -
“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… -
Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son
Ken Jacobs | 115' | USA | -
Jacobs’s camera closes in on a 1905 film to better ascertain the infinite richness, searching out incongruities, delighting in the whole bizarre human -
The Whirled
Ken Jacobs | 19' | USA | -
Featuring Jack Smith 1. Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice (1956) 2. Little Cobra Dance (1956) 3. Hunch Your Back (1963) 4. Death Of P’Town …