Ken Jacobs Movies

2017
Ulysses in the Subway
Ulysses in the Subway
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A picturing of sound in 3D.
2026
A Date with Shirley
A Date with Shirley
02026HD
Dir. Ken Jacobs. 2025, 48 mins. U.S. Digital. This colorful and cubist record of a Chinatown haircut is the final long-form work by the great...
2013
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #4
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #4
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"Joys…began on the corner of Broadway and Spring but it was the next night waiting on Bleecker that it was understood a movie of sorts was...
2019
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
02019HD
"My last image of Jonas."—Ken Jacobs
2020
Movie That Invites Pausing
Movie That Invites Pausing
02020HD
"Influenced by avant-garde artist-refugees from Europe, non-representational art dominated the art market after WW2 [...] Viewers offered open minds,...
1961
The Death of P'town
The Death of P'town
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Shot in Provincetown in the summer of '61 with the goal of funding a larger project, the film was never completed due to a violent argument between...
1963
Little Stabs at Happiness
Little Stabs at Happiness
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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...
2017
Get Up and Go
Get Up and Go
02017HD
Description by Ken Jacobs: Get Up and Go is a glimpse given dimension. No day is complete without a visit to Chinatown and on this day my movie...
1956
Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice
Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice
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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...
2009
The Day Was a Scorcher
The Day Was a Scorcher
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A 3-D vacation album, The Day Was a Scorcher pictures what Jacobs describes as "movie-star Flo, Nisi the thoughtful young girl, and Aza old enough to...
2007
New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903
New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903
62007HD
First created and presented as a Tzadik New Jewish Culture offering in 1993. First performed live as a Nervous System performance with Catherine...
2010
Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two
Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two
02010HD
Sequel to Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway
2011
The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street
The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street
02011HD
Early 20th-century street vendors push their carts loaded with vegetables. It is time for them to go. Little by little, the viewer discovers...
1969
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
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An experimental feature made by rephotographing the 1905 Biograph short Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son.
2008
Return to the Scene of the Crime
Return to the Scene of the Crime
02008HD
This is how the film begins, duck-on-a-leash to Little Bo Peep to the revealing of the too-busy full stage-set. Each gets their close-up and the many...
2010
Lavender
Lavender
02010HD
A wholesome moment: Jonas Mekas, MM Serra, Ken Jacobs, and Flo Jacobs take lavender from a stranger's bush.
2016
Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
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"Abstract Expressionist Cinema"
1977
Book of Splendors, Part Two, Book of Levers: Action at a Distance
Book of Splendors, Part Two, Book of Levers: Action at a Distance
01977HD
Foreman’s longtime friend Ken Jacobs situated himself in the audience of the legendary Ontological-Hysteric theater space at 491 Broadway to...
2021
Cartoonish 1-10
Cartoonish 1-10
02021HD
One of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.
1965
Naomi Is A Dream of Loveliness
Naomi Is A Dream of Loveliness
01965HD
Film portrait of Naomi Levine by Ken Jacobs