Ken Jacobs Movies

  • 2000
    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

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    A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...

    As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
  • 1968
    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

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    An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
  • 1986
    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

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    A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.

    He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
  • 2011
    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

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    Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up...

    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
  • 2022
    Fragments of Paradise

    Fragments of Paradise

    Fragments of Paradise

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    For over 70 years, Jonas Mekas, internationally known as the "godfather" of avant-garde cinema, documented his life in what came to be known as his...

    Fragments of Paradise
  • 2013
    What Is Cinema?

    What Is Cinema?

    What Is Cinema?

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    Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh,...

    What Is Cinema?
  • 2007
    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

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    This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...

    365 Day Project
  • 1962
    Scotch Tape

    Scotch Tape

    Scotch Tape

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    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...

    Scotch Tape
  • 1976
    Lost, Lost, Lost

    Lost, Lost, Lost

    Lost, Lost, Lost

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    Jonas Mekas adjusts to a life in exile in New York in his autobiographical film, shot between 1949 and 1963.

    Lost, Lost, Lost
  • 1963
    Blonde Cobra

    Blonde Cobra

    Blonde Cobra

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    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...

    Blonde Cobra
  • 2014
    The Guests

    The Guests

    The Guests

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    A reworking of 10 seconds from Entrée d`une noce à l`église (Entrance of a wedding at the church), the 1896 Lumiere brothers...

    The Guests
  • 2016
    Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

    Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

    Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

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    "Abstract Expressionist Cinema"

    Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
  • 2020
    Broadway Building

    Broadway Building

    Broadway Building

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    An Eternalism film.

    Broadway Building
  • 2019
    Failure

    Failure

    Failure

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    "fails to distinguish art from history." An eternalism film by Ken Jacobs.

    Failure
  • 2008
    Momma's Man

    Momma's Man

    Momma's Man

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    An adult decides to escape the pressures of life and return to his old bedroom at his parents' house.

    Momma's Man
  • 2008
    Alone at Last

    Alone at Last

    Alone at Last

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    An Eternalism 3-D film by Ken Jacobs

    Alone at Last
  • 2020
    Storefront

    Storefront

    Storefront

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    An Eternalism film.

    Storefront
  • 2020
    Rain Clouds

    Rain Clouds

    Rain Clouds

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    An Eternalism film.

    Rain Clouds
  • 1968
    Huge Pupils

    Huge Pupils

    Huge Pupils

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    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...

    Huge Pupils
  • 2020
    Water Balloon

    Water Balloon

    Water Balloon

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    An Eternalism film.

    Water Balloon