Ken Jacobs Movies

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    Scotch Tape

    Scotch Tape

    Scotch Tape

    MOVIE

    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 soundtr...

    Scotch Tape
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    Momma's Man

    Momma's Man

    Momma's Man

    MOVIE

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

    Momma's Man
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    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

    MOVIE

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

    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
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    Lavender

    Lavender

    Lavender

    MOVIE

    A wholesome moment: Jonas Mekas, MM Serra, Ken Jacobs, and Flo Jacobs take lavender from a stranger's bush.

    Lavender
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    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    MOVIE

    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

    Home Movies 1971-81
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    Sleepless Nights Stories

    Sleepless Nights Stories

    Sleepless Nights Stories

    MOVIE

    Director Jonas Mekas travels through New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, galleries, bars, and clubs. Encountering old acqua...

    Sleepless Nights Stories
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    Fragments of Paradise

    Fragments of Paradise

    Fragments of Paradise

    MOVIE

    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 di...

    Fragments of Paradise
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    Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages

    Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages

    Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages

    MOVIE

    This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology’s voicemail system over the...

    Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
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    Huge Pupils

    Huge Pupils

    Huge Pupils

    MOVIE

    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 woul...

    Huge Pupils
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    Blonde Cobra

    Blonde Cobra

    Blonde Cobra

    MOVIE

    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 soundtr...

    Blonde Cobra
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    Shorts From the Underground

    Shorts From the Underground

    Shorts From the Underground

    MOVIE

    Features interviews with famed underground filmmaker Ken Jacobs and associates, and screens in full (I think) two rare Jacobs works: Nissan Ariana Win...

    Shorts From the Underground
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    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

    MOVIE

    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 and for...

    365 Day Project
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    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

    MOVIE

    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
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    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

    MOVIE

    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
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    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

    MOVIE

    In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's perform...

    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
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    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    MOVIE

    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

    Birth of a Nation
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    Bill's Hat

    Bill's Hat

    Bill's Hat

    MOVIE

    "The whole film are non-art portraits of people in which they do what they want with this hat – and therefore, act or stand in front of my camera. It’...

    Bill's Hat
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    What Is Cinema?

    What Is Cinema?

    What Is Cinema?

    MOVIE

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

    What Is Cinema?
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    Star Spangled to Death

    Star Spangled to Death

    Star Spangled to Death

    MOVIE

    An examination of the history of the U.S. through archival footage and contrasting views of society, incorporating audiovisual material ranging from p...

    Star Spangled to Death
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    Jonas in the Desert

    Jonas in the Desert

    Jonas in the Desert

    MOVIE

    Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas - one of the exponents of in...

    Jonas in the Desert