Ken Jacobs Movies
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Scotch Tape
Scotch TapeMOVIE
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...
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Momma's Man
Momma's ManMOVIE
An adult decides to escape the pressures of life and return to his old bedroom at his parents' house.
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Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental FilmMOVIE
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...
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Lavender
LavenderMOVIE
A wholesome moment: Jonas Mekas, MM Serra, Ken Jacobs, and Flo Jacobs take lavender from a stranger's bush.
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Home Movies 1971-81
Home Movies 1971-81MOVIE
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
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Sleepless Nights Stories
Sleepless Nights StoriesMOVIE
Director Jonas Mekas travels through New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, galleries, bars, and clubs. Encountering old acqua...
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Fragments of Paradise
Fragments of ParadiseMOVIE
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...
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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 AgesMOVIE
This very special film features a carefully curated selection of some of the priceless messages that have graced Anthology’s voicemail system over the...
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Huge Pupils
Huge PupilsMOVIE
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...
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Blonde Cobra
Blonde CobraMOVIE
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...
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Shorts From the Underground
Shorts From the UndergroundMOVIE
Features interviews with famed underground filmmaker Ken Jacobs and associates, and screens in full (I think) two rare Jacobs works: Nissan Ariana Win...
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365 Day Project
365 Day ProjectMOVIE
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...
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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 BeautyMOVIE
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely...
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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 LifeMOVIE
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Jack Smith and the Destruction of AtlantisMOVIE
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's perform...
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Birth of a Nation
Birth of a NationMOVIE
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
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Bill's Hat
Bill's HatMOVIE
"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’...
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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...
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Star Spangled to Death
Star Spangled to DeathMOVIE
An examination of the history of the U.S. through archival footage and contrasting views of society, incorporating audiovisual material ranging from p...
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Jonas in the Desert
Jonas in the DesertMOVIE
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...