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Ken Jacobs (b. 1933)

Alias:
켄 제이콥스

Birthplace:
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Born:
May 25, 1933

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A pioneer of the American film avant-garde of the 1960s and '70s, Ken Jacobs is a central figure in post-war experimental cinema. From his first films of the late 1950s to his recent experiments with digital video, his investigations and innovations have influenced countless artists.  A New Yorker by birth, Jacobs graduated from City University to find himself in the midst of the downtown art scene of the 1960s, which included artists Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol, beat writers Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac; and the experimental theater troupes of Trisha Brown and Yvonne Rainer. Although Jacobs had studied painting with Hans Hoffman, he quickly gravitated to film, finding kindred spirits in radical filmmakers such as Jonas Mekas and Hollis Frampton. An early friendship with Jack Smith yielded several collaborations, including the seminal underground films Blonde Cobra (which Jonas Mekas dubbed "the masterpiece of Baudelairean cinema") and Little Stabs at Happiness, as well as a Provincetown beach-based live show, The Human Wreckage Review.

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Camera Operator:
2006  Monks of Cinema

Cinematography:
1964  Window
2004  Star Spangled to Death
2006  Monks of Cinema

Director:
1955  Orchard Street
1956  Little Cobra Dance
1956  Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice
1962  Baud'larian Capers
1963  Blonde Cobra
1963  Little Stabs at Happiness
1963  TV Plug
1963  The Death of P'town
1964  1st Window
1964  Artie and Marty Rosenblatt’s Baby Pictures
1964  The Winter Footage
1964  We Stole Away
1964  Window
1964  Winter Sky
1965  Lisa and Joey in Connecticut
1965  Naomi Is A Dream of Loveliness
1967  Airshaft
1967  For Life, Against the War
1968  Soft Rain
1968  The Sky Socialist
1969  Globe
1969  Nissan Ariana Window
1969  Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
1970  Binghamton, My India
1973  Changing Azazel
1975  Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture
1975  Urban Peasants
1976  Spaghetti Aza
1977  The Doctor's Dream
1985  Perfect Film
1986  The Alps and The Jews
1990  Chronometer
1991  Keaton's Cops
1991  Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896
1994  Bitemporal Vision: The Sea
1995  Looting For Rodney
1995  Make Light On Film
1996  Disorient Express
1996  The Georgetown Loop
1999  Flo Rounds a Corner
1999  New York Street-Trollys 1900
2002  A Tom Tom Chaser
2002  Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence
2002  The Sky Socialist: Flight
2003  Keeping an Eye on Stan
2004  Mountaineer Spinning
2004  Star Spangled to Death
2005  Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise
2005  Incendiary Cinema
2005  Insistent Clamor
2005  Krypton Is Doomed
2005  Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 1888
2005  Let There Be Whistle Blowers
2005  Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye Molly
2005  Spiral Nebula
2006  Monks of Cinema
2006  Pushcarts of Eternity Street
2006  The Surging Sea of Humanity
2006  Two Wrenching Departures
2007  Capitalism: Child Labor
2007  Capitalism: Slavery
2007  Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World
2007  Hanky Panky January 1902
2007  Mosco Street Rapture
2007  Nervous Lantern at Kill Your Timid Notion Festival
2007  New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903
2007  Nymph
2007  Popeye Sees 3-D, TOO
2007  Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World
2007  The Whirled
2007  Titles
2007  We Are Charming
2008  Alone at Last
2008  Amorous Interludes: His Favorite Wife Improved (or The Virtue Of Bad Reception)
2008  Anaglyph Tom (Tom with Puffy Cheeks)
2008  Elbow Dance
2008  Love Story
2008  Return to the Scene of the Crime
2008  The Discovery
2008  The Scenic Route
2009  Berkeley To San Francisco
2009  Bob Fleischner Dying
2009  Brain Operations
2009  Brook
2009  Excerpt From THE SKY SOCIALIST Stratified
2009  Gravity Is Tops
2009  Hot Dogs At The Met
2009  Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days
2009  Ronald Gonzales, Sculptor
2009  The Day Was a Scorcher
2009  The Signing
2009  Walkway
2009  What Happened on 23rd Street in 1901
2009  “Slow is Beauty”—Rodin
2010  A Loft
2010  Fair And White: Parts I, II, III and Extra
2010  Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway
2010  Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two
2010  The Near-Collision
2011  60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2011  America at War, The Home Front: Film Opening
2011  Another Occupation
2011  Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
2011  DAY AND NIGHT
2011  Revolving Door
2011  Seeking the Monkey King
2011  The Green Wave
2011  The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street
2011  The Roses
2011  Turbulent Waters
2012  20 Little Films
2012  Blankets for Indians
2012  Street Vendor
2013  A Primer in Sky Socialism
2013  Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #1
2013  Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #2
2013  Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #3
2013  Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #4
2014  Canopy
2014  Celestial Bodies
2014  Popeye Sees 3-D
2014  Pygmalion Cubed
2014  The Guests
2014  Wire Fence
2015  Afternoon Tide
2015  Aimless Sightseeing, Seoul
2015  Batchellor’s Dog and Beach
2015  Chrysalis
2015  Cyclops Observes the Celestial Bodies
2015  Empty Seats
2015  The Lackadaisical Speed of Light
2015  Zazie Learns About Money
2016  Hydroelectric Dam
2016  I'm Telling You
2016  Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / JG Thirlwell @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / Robert Poss @The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / Tom Chiu of Flux Quartet @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / Victoria Keddie @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / diNMachine @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Lurking
2016  Molten Landscape
2016  Mosco Street 2
2016  Mosco Street 3: Attack of The Perfect Camera (Fuji W3)
2016  Reichstag 9/11
2017  A Spin Through Night City
2017  Along the Elevated
2017  Get Up and Go
2017  Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl
2017  Swee’pea’s Favorite Eternalisms
2017  Ulysses in the Subway
2017  Windbreaker
2018  The Moments: Evening Boat Ride
2019  Above the Rain
2019  CRUSH
2019  Cartoon
2019  Chaos Is Order Misunderstood
2019  Details of Pollock's White Light
2019  Dimsum and Dragons
2019  Failure
2019  Figures I - V
2019  Joan Mitchell: Departures
2019  MOVING ROAD
2019  Nervous Magic Lantern: 3D for One or Two Naked Eyes
2019  Once Upon a Planet
2019  PAPPY SEES 3D, TOO
2019  Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
2019  THE WHOLE SHEBANG
2019  The Sky Socialist: The Environs
2019  Things to Come
2020  Another Day in Days of Yore
2020  Bandit
2020  Barber
2020  Bargains
2020  Bison
2020  Brick Building with Red and Green Windows
2020  Broadway Building
2020  Broadway Buildings II
2020  Broadway Buildings III
2020  Chinese New Years
2020  Chinese New Years II
2020  City Foliage
2020  Clouds and Trees
2020  DR. TOOTHY
2020  DeKooning Passed
2020  Doyer Street
2020  Duck
2020  Facade with Face
2020  Fire Escape
2020  Flowers and Bike
2020  Foliage in Moving Car Window
2020  Friendly Building
2020  Garage Wall
2020  Halley’s Comet
2020  Hubble II
2020  Ken and Flo
2020  Lazy City
2020  Movie That Invites Pausing
2020  Municipal Building Passage
2020  Natural Collage
2020  Neon Sign
2020  PAINTED POSTER
2020  Period Piece
2020  RECIPROCAL
2020  Rain Clouds
2020  Reading Society
2020  Red Green
2020  Resting Merchant
2020  Roots of Manhattan
2020  Rubble
2020  Sleeping American
2020  Spaceworks
2020  Spiky
2020  Storefront
2020  Street Commerce
2020  Street Commerce II
2020  Transparent Apartments
2020  Waiting Room Window
2020  Water Balloon
2020  Whirlpool
2020  Working Girls (short)
2021  A Small Misunderstanding
2021  Abstract Eternalism
2021  Adventures of Cookie Truck
2021  Aspiring To Music
2021  Cartoonish 1-10
2021  Double Wow
2021  Eternal Beach
2021  Hoffman Student
2021  XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX
2022  America Let's Her Hair Down 1905
2022  Buster Keaton Embossed
2022  Real Action Figures
2022  Sergei Eisenstein Embossed
2022  When Timofeev Moves Everything Moves
2023  Book of Eternalisms 1-6
2023  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2023  From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
2023  One Dozen Roses
2023  Other Urban Lives
2023  Spasm
2023  Tourists of the Familiar 1
2023  Tourists of the Familiar 10
2023  Tourists of the Familiar 15
2023  Tourists of the Familiar 20
2023  Tourists of the Familiar 5
2023  Up the Illusion
2023  Whims of Twenty Twenty-Three
2023  Writhing City

Editor:
1955  Orchard Street
1956  Little Cobra Dance
1956  Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice
1962  Baud'larian Capers
1963  Blonde Cobra
1963  Little Stabs at Happiness
1963  TV Plug
1963  The Death of P'town
1964  1st Window
1964  Artie and Marty Rosenblatt’s Baby Pictures
1964  The Winter Footage
1964  We Stole Away
1964  Window
1964  Winter Sky
1965  Lisa and Joey in Connecticut
1965  Naomi Is A Dream of Loveliness
1967  Airshaft
1967  For Life, Against the War
1968  Soft Rain
1968  The Sky Socialist
1969  Globe
1969  Nissan Ariana Window
1969  Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
1970  Binghamton, My India
1973  Changing Azazel
1975  Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture
1975  Urban Peasants
1976  Spaghetti Aza
1977  The Doctor's Dream
1985  Perfect Film
1986  The Alps and The Jews
1990  Chronometer
1991  Keaton's Cops
1991  Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896
1994  Bitemporal Vision: The Sea
1995  Looting For Rodney
1995  Make Light On Film
1996  Disorient Express
1996  The Georgetown Loop
1999  Flo Rounds a Corner
1999  New York Street-Trollys 1900
2002  A Tom Tom Chaser
2002  Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence
2002  The Sky Socialist: Flight
2003  Keeping an Eye on Stan
2004  Mountaineer Spinning
2004  Star Spangled to Death
2005  Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise
2005  Incendiary Cinema
2005  Insistent Clamor
2005  Krypton Is Doomed
2005  Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 1888
2005  Let There Be Whistle Blowers
2005  Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye Molly
2005  Spiral Nebula
2006  Monks of Cinema
2006  Pushcarts of Eternity Street
2006  The Surging Sea of Humanity
2006  Two Wrenching Departures
2007  Capitalism: Child Labor
2007  Capitalism: Slavery
2007  Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World
2007  Hanky Panky January 1902
2007  Mosco Street Rapture
2007  Nervous Lantern at Kill Your Timid Notion Festival
2007  New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903
2007  Nymph
2007  Popeye Sees 3-D, TOO
2007  Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World
2007  The Whirled
2007  Titles
2007  We Are Charming
2008  Alone at Last
2008  Amorous Interludes: His Favorite Wife Improved (or The Virtue Of Bad Reception)
2008  Anaglyph Tom (Tom with Puffy Cheeks)
2008  Elbow Dance
2008  Love Story
2008  Return to the Scene of the Crime
2008  The Discovery
2008  The Scenic Route
2009  Berkeley To San Francisco
2009  Bob Fleischner Dying
2009  Brain Operations
2009  Brook
2009  Excerpt From THE SKY SOCIALIST Stratified
2009  Gravity Is Tops
2009  Hot Dogs At The Met
2009  Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days
2009  Ronald Gonzales, Sculptor
2009  The Day Was a Scorcher
2009  The Signing
2009  Walkway
2009  What Happened on 23rd Street in 1901
2009  “Slow is Beauty”—Rodin
2010  A Loft
2010  Fair And White: Parts I, II, III and Extra
2010  Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway
2010  Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two
2010  The Near-Collision
2011  60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2011  America at War, The Home Front: Film Opening
2011  Another Occupation
2011  Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
2011  DAY AND NIGHT
2011  Revolving Door
2011  Seeking the Monkey King
2011  The Green Wave
2011  The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street
2011  The Roses
2011  Turbulent Waters
2012  20 Little Films
2012  Blankets for Indians
2012  Street Vendor
2013  A Primer in Sky Socialism
2013  Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #1
2013  Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #2
2013  Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #3
2013  Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #4
2014  Canopy
2014  Celestial Bodies
2014  Popeye Sees 3-D
2014  Pygmalion Cubed
2014  The Guests
2014  Wire Fence
2015  Afternoon Tide
2015  Aimless Sightseeing, Seoul
2015  Batchellor’s Dog and Beach
2015  Chrysalis
2015  Cyclops Observes the Celestial Bodies
2015  Empty Seats
2015  The Lackadaisical Speed of Light
2015  Zazie Learns About Money
2016  Hydroelectric Dam
2016  I'm Telling You
2016  Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / JG Thirlwell @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / Robert Poss @The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / Tom Chiu of Flux Quartet @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / Victoria Keddie @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / diNMachine @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Lurking
2016  Molten Landscape
2016  Mosco Street 2
2016  Mosco Street 3: Attack of The Perfect Camera (Fuji W3)
2016  Reichstag 9/11
2017  A Spin Through Night City
2017  Along the Elevated
2017  Get Up and Go
2017  Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl
2017  Swee’pea’s Favorite Eternalisms
2017  Ulysses in the Subway
2017  Windbreaker
2018  The Moments: Evening Boat Ride
2019  Above the Rain
2019  CRUSH
2019  Cartoon
2019  Chaos Is Order Misunderstood
2019  Details of Pollock's White Light
2019  Dimsum and Dragons
2019  Failure
2019  Figures I - V
2019  Joan Mitchell: Departures
2019  MOVING ROAD
2019  Nervous Magic Lantern: 3D for One or Two Naked Eyes
2019  Once Upon a Planet
2019  PAPPY SEES 3D, TOO
2019  Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
2019  THE WHOLE SHEBANG
2019  The Sky Socialist: The Environs
2019  Things to Come
2020  Another Day in Days of Yore
2020  Bandit
2020  Barber
2020  Bargains
2020  Bison
2020  Brick Building with Red and Green Windows
2020  Broadway Building
2020  Broadway Buildings II
2020  Broadway Buildings III
2020  Chinese New Years
2020  Chinese New Years II
2020  City Foliage
2020  Clouds and Trees
2020  DR. TOOTHY
2020  DeKooning Passed
2020  Doyer Street
2020  Duck
2020  Facade with Face
2020  Fire Escape
2020  Flowers and Bike
2020  Foliage in Moving Car Window
2020  Friendly Building
2020  Garage Wall
2020  Halley’s Comet
2020  Hubble II
2020  Ken and Flo
2020  Lazy City
2020  Movie That Invites Pausing
2020  Municipal Building Passage
2020  Natural Collage
2020  Neon Sign
2020  PAINTED POSTER
2020  Period Piece
2020  RECIPROCAL
2020  Rain Clouds
2020  Reading Society
2020  Red Green
2020  Resting Merchant
2020  Roots of Manhattan
2020  Rubble
2020  Sleeping American
2020  Spaceworks
2020  Spiky
2020  Storefront
2020  Street Commerce
2020  Street Commerce II
2020  Transparent Apartments
2020  Waiting Room Window
2020  Water Balloon
2020  Whirlpool
2020  Working Girls (short)
2021  A Small Misunderstanding
2021  Abstract Eternalism
2021  Adventures of Cookie Truck
2021  Aspiring To Music
2021  Cartoonish 1-10
2021  Double Wow
2021  Eternal Beach
2021  Hoffman Student
2021  XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX
2022  America Let's Her Hair Down 1905
2022  Buster Keaton Embossed
2022  Real Action Figures
2022  Sergei Eisenstein Embossed
2022  When Timofeev Moves Everything Moves
2023  Book of Eternalisms 1-6
2023  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2023  From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
2023  One Dozen Roses
2023  Other Urban Lives
2023  Spasm
2023  Tourists of the Familiar 1
2023  Tourists of the Familiar 10
2023  Tourists of the Familiar 15
2023  Tourists of the Familiar 20
2023  Tourists of the Familiar 5
2023  Up the Illusion
2023  Whims of Twenty Twenty-Three
2023  Writhing City

Producer:
1955  Orchard Street
1956  Little Cobra Dance
1956  Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice
1962  Baud'larian Capers
1963  Blonde Cobra
1963  Little Stabs at Happiness
1963  TV Plug
1963  The Death of P'town
1964  1st Window
1964  Artie and Marty Rosenblatt’s Baby Pictures
1964  The Winter Footage
1964  We Stole Away
1964  Window
1964  Winter Sky
1965  Lisa and Joey in Connecticut
1965  Naomi Is A Dream of Loveliness
1967  Airshaft
1967  For Life, Against the War
1968  Soft Rain
1968  The Sky Socialist
1969  Globe
1969  Nissan Ariana Window
1969  Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
1970  Binghamton, My India
1973  Changing Azazel
1975  Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture
1975  Urban Peasants
1976  Spaghetti Aza
1977  The Doctor's Dream
1985  Perfect Film
1986  The Alps and The Jews
1990  Chronometer
1991  Keaton's Cops
1991  Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896
1994  Bitemporal Vision: The Sea
1995  Looting For Rodney
1995  Make Light On Film
1996  Disorient Express
1996  The Georgetown Loop
1999  Flo Rounds a Corner
1999  New York Street-Trollys 1900
2002  A Tom Tom Chaser
2002  Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence
2002  The Sky Socialist: Flight
2003  Keeping an Eye on Stan
2004  Mountaineer Spinning
2004  Star Spangled to Death
2005  Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise
2005  Incendiary Cinema
2005  Insistent Clamor
2005  Krypton Is Doomed
2005  Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 1888
2005  Let There Be Whistle Blowers
2005  Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye Molly
2005  Spiral Nebula
2006  Monks of Cinema
2006  Pushcarts of Eternity Street
2006  The Surging Sea of Humanity
2006  Two Wrenching Departures
2007  Capitalism: Child Labor
2007  Capitalism: Slavery
2007  Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World
2007  Hanky Panky January 1902
2007  Mosco Street Rapture
2007  Nervous Lantern at Kill Your Timid Notion Festival
2007  New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903
2007  Nymph
2007  Popeye Sees 3-D, TOO
2007  Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World
2007  The Whirled
2007  Titles
2007  We Are Charming
2008  Alone at Last
2008  Amorous Interludes: His Favorite Wife Improved (or The Virtue Of Bad Reception)
2008  Anaglyph Tom (Tom with Puffy Cheeks)
2008  Elbow Dance
2008  Love Story
2008  Return to the Scene of the Crime
2008  The Discovery
2008  The Scenic Route
2009  Berkeley To San Francisco
2009  Bob Fleischner Dying
2009  Brain Operations
2009  Brook
2009  Excerpt From THE SKY SOCIALIST Stratified
2009  Gravity Is Tops
2009  Hot Dogs At The Met
2009  Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days
2009  Ronald Gonzales, Sculptor
2009  The Day Was a Scorcher
2009  The Signing
2009  Walkway
2009  What Happened on 23rd Street in 1901
2009  “Slow is Beauty”—Rodin
2010  A Loft
2010  Fair And White: Parts I, II, III and Extra
2010  Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway
2010  Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two
2010  The Near-Collision
2011  60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2011  America at War, The Home Front: Film Opening
2011  Another Occupation
2011  Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
2011  DAY AND NIGHT
2011  Revolving Door
2011  Seeking the Monkey King
2011  The Green Wave
2011  The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street
2011  The Roses
2011  Turbulent Waters
2012  20 Little Films
2012  Blankets for Indians
2012  Street Vendor
2013  A Primer in Sky Socialism
2013  Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #1
2013  Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #2
2013  Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #3
2013  Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #4
2014  Canopy
2014  Celestial Bodies
2014  Popeye Sees 3-D
2014  Pygmalion Cubed
2014  The Guests
2014  Wire Fence
2015  Afternoon Tide
2015  Aimless Sightseeing, Seoul
2015  Batchellor’s Dog and Beach
2015  Chrysalis
2015  Cyclops Observes the Celestial Bodies
2015  Empty Seats
2015  The Lackadaisical Speed of Light
2015  Zazie Learns About Money
2016  Hydroelectric Dam
2016  I'm Telling You
2016  Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / JG Thirlwell @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / Robert Poss @The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / Tom Chiu of Flux Quartet @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / Victoria Keddie @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / diNMachine @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Lurking
2016  Molten Landscape
2016  Mosco Street 2
2016  Mosco Street 3: Attack of The Perfect Camera (Fuji W3)
2016  Reichstag 9/11
2017  A Spin Through Night City
2017  Along the Elevated
2017  Get Up and Go
2017  Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl
2017  Swee’pea’s Favorite Eternalisms
2017  Ulysses in the Subway
2017  Windbreaker
2018  The Moments: Evening Boat Ride
2019  Above the Rain
2019  CRUSH
2019  Cartoon
2019  Chaos Is Order Misunderstood
2019  Details of Pollock's White Light
2019  Dimsum and Dragons
2019  Failure
2019  Figures I - V
2019  Joan Mitchell: Departures
2019  MOVING ROAD
2019  Nervous Magic Lantern: 3D for One or Two Naked Eyes
2019  Once Upon a Planet
2019  PAPPY SEES 3D, TOO
2019  Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
2019  THE WHOLE SHEBANG
2019  The Sky Socialist: The Environs
2019  Things to Come
2020  Another Day in Days of Yore
2020  Bandit
2020  Barber
2020  Bargains
2020  Bison
2020  Brick Building with Red and Green Windows
2020  Broadway Building
2020  Broadway Buildings II
2020  Broadway Buildings III
2020  Chinese New Years
2020  Chinese New Years II
2020  City Foliage
2020  Clouds and Trees
2020  DR. TOOTHY
2020  DeKooning Passed
2020  Doyer Street
2020  Duck
2020  Facade with Face
2020  Fire Escape
2020  Flowers and Bike
2020  Foliage in Moving Car Window
2020  Friendly Building
2020  Garage Wall
2020  Halley’s Comet
2020  Hubble II
2020  Ken and Flo
2020  Lazy City
2020  Movie That Invites Pausing
2020  Municipal Building Passage
2020  Natural Collage
2020  Neon Sign
2020  PAINTED POSTER
2020  Period Piece
2020  RECIPROCAL
2020  Rain Clouds
2020  Reading Society
2020  Red Green
2020  Resting Merchant
2020  Roots of Manhattan
2020  Rubble
2020  Sleeping American
2020  Spaceworks
2020  Spiky
2020  Storefront
2020  Street Commerce
2020  Street Commerce II
2020  Transparent Apartments
2020  Waiting Room Window
2020  Water Balloon
2020  Whirlpool
2020  Working Girls (short)
2021  A Small Misunderstanding
2021  Abstract Eternalism
2021  Adventures of Cookie Truck
2021  Aspiring To Music
2021  Cartoonish 1-10
2021  Double Wow
2021  Eternal Beach
2021  Hoffman Student
2021  XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX
2022  America Let's Her Hair Down 1905
2022  Buster Keaton Embossed
2022  Real Action Figures
2022  Sergei Eisenstein Embossed
2022  When Timofeev Moves Everything Moves
2023  Book of Eternalisms 1-6
2023  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2023  From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
2023  One Dozen Roses
2023  Other Urban Lives
2023  Spasm
2023  Tourists of the Familiar 1
2023  Tourists of the Familiar 10
2023  Tourists of the Familiar 15
2023  Tourists of the Familiar 20
2023  Tourists of the Familiar 5
2023  Up the Illusion
2023  Whims of Twenty Twenty-Three
2023  Writhing City

Technical Supervisor:
1955  Orchard Street
1956  Little Cobra Dance
1956  Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice
1962  Baud'larian Capers
1963  Blonde Cobra
1963  Little Stabs at Happiness
1963  TV Plug
1963  The Death of P'town
1964  1st Window
1964  Artie and Marty Rosenblatt’s Baby Pictures
1964  The Winter Footage
1964  We Stole Away
1964  Window
1964  Winter Sky
1965  Lisa and Joey in Connecticut
1965  Naomi Is A Dream of Loveliness
1967  Airshaft
1967  For Life, Against the War
1968  Soft Rain
1968  The Sky Socialist
1969  Globe
1969  Nissan Ariana Window
1969  Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
1970  Binghamton, My India
1973  Changing Azazel
1975  Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture
1975  Urban Peasants
1976  Spaghetti Aza
1977  The Doctor's Dream
1985  Perfect Film
1986  The Alps and The Jews
1990  Chronometer
1991  Keaton's Cops
1991  Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896
1994  Bitemporal Vision: The Sea
1995  Looting For Rodney
1995  Make Light On Film
1996  Disorient Express
1996  The Georgetown Loop
1999  Flo Rounds a Corner
1999  New York Street-Trollys 1900
2002  A Tom Tom Chaser
2002  Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence
2002  The Sky Socialist: Flight
2003  Keeping an Eye on Stan
2004  Mountaineer Spinning
2004  Star Spangled to Death
2005  Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise
2005  Incendiary Cinema
2005  Insistent Clamor
2005  Krypton Is Doomed
2005  Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 1888
2005  Let There Be Whistle Blowers
2005  Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye Molly
2005  Spiral Nebula
2006  Monks of Cinema
2006  Pushcarts of Eternity Street
2006  The Surging Sea of Humanity
2006  Two Wrenching Departures
2007  Capitalism: Child Labor
2007  Capitalism: Slavery
2007  Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World
2007  Hanky Panky January 1902
2007  Mosco Street Rapture
2007  Nervous Lantern at Kill Your Timid Notion Festival
2007  New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903
2007  Nymph
2007  Popeye Sees 3-D, TOO
2007  Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World
2007  The Whirled
2007  Titles
2007  We Are Charming
2008  Alone at Last
2008  Amorous Interludes: His Favorite Wife Improved (or The Virtue Of Bad Reception)
2008  Anaglyph Tom (Tom with Puffy Cheeks)
2008  Elbow Dance
2008  Love Story
2008  Return to the Scene of the Crime
2008  The Discovery
2008  The Scenic Route
2009  Berkeley To San Francisco
2009  Bob Fleischner Dying
2009  Brain Operations
2009  Brook
2009  Excerpt From THE SKY SOCIALIST Stratified
2009  Gravity Is Tops
2009  Hot Dogs At The Met
2009  Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days
2009  Ronald Gonzales, Sculptor
2009  The Day Was a Scorcher
2009  The Signing
2009  Walkway
2009  What Happened on 23rd Street in 1901
2009  “Slow is Beauty”—Rodin
2010  A Loft
2010  Fair And White: Parts I, II, III and Extra
2010  Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway
2010  Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two
2010  The Near-Collision
2011  60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2011  America at War, The Home Front: Film Opening
2011  Another Occupation
2011  Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
2011  DAY AND NIGHT
2011  Revolving Door
2011  Seeking the Monkey King
2011  The Green Wave
2011  The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street
2011  The Roses
2011  Turbulent Waters
2012  20 Little Films
2012  Blankets for Indians
2012  Street Vendor
2013  A Primer in Sky Socialism
2013  Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #1
2013  Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #2
2013  Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #3
2013  Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #4
2014  Canopy
2014  Celestial Bodies
2014  Popeye Sees 3-D
2014  Pygmalion Cubed
2014  The Guests
2014  Wire Fence
2015  Afternoon Tide
2015  Aimless Sightseeing, Seoul
2015  Batchellor’s Dog and Beach
2015  Chrysalis
2015  Cyclops Observes the Celestial Bodies
2015  Empty Seats
2015  The Lackadaisical Speed of Light
2015  Zazie Learns About Money
2016  Hydroelectric Dam
2016  I'm Telling You
2016  Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / JG Thirlwell @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / Robert Poss @The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / Tom Chiu of Flux Quartet @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / Victoria Keddie @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / diNMachine @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Lurking
2016  Molten Landscape
2016  Mosco Street 2
2016  Mosco Street 3: Attack of The Perfect Camera (Fuji W3)
2016  Reichstag 9/11
2017  A Spin Through Night City
2017  Along the Elevated
2017  Get Up and Go
2017  Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl
2017  Swee’pea’s Favorite Eternalisms
2017  Ulysses in the Subway
2017  Windbreaker
2018  The Moments: Evening Boat Ride
2019  Above the Rain
2019  CRUSH
2019  Cartoon
2019  Chaos Is Order Misunderstood
2019  Details of Pollock's White Light
2019  Dimsum and Dragons
2019  Failure
2019  Figures I - V
2019  Joan Mitchell: Departures
2019  MOVING ROAD
2019  Nervous Magic Lantern: 3D for One or Two Naked Eyes
2019  Once Upon a Planet
2019  PAPPY SEES 3D, TOO
2019  Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
2019  THE WHOLE SHEBANG
2019  The Sky Socialist: The Environs
2019  Things to Come
2020  Another Day in Days of Yore
2020  Bandit
2020  Barber
2020  Bargains
2020  Bison
2020  Brick Building with Red and Green Windows
2020  Broadway Building
2020  Broadway Buildings II
2020  Broadway Buildings III
2020  Chinese New Years
2020  Chinese New Years II
2020  City Foliage
2020  Clouds and Trees
2020  DR. TOOTHY
2020  DeKooning Passed
2020  Doyer Street
2020  Duck
2020  Facade with Face
2020  Fire Escape
2020  Flowers and Bike
2020  Foliage in Moving Car Window
2020  Friendly Building
2020  Garage Wall
2020  Halley’s Comet
2020  Hubble II
2020  Ken and Flo
2020  Lazy City
2020  Movie That Invites Pausing
2020  Municipal Building Passage
2020  Natural Collage
2020  Neon Sign
2020  PAINTED POSTER
2020  Period Piece
2020  RECIPROCAL
2020  Rain Clouds
2020  Reading Society
2020  Red Green
2020  Resting Merchant
2020  Roots of Manhattan
2020  Rubble
2020  Sleeping American
2020  Spaceworks
2020  Spiky
2020  Storefront
2020  Street Commerce
2020  Street Commerce II
2020  Transparent Apartments
2020  Waiting Room Window
2020  Water Balloon
2020  Whirlpool
2020  Working Girls (short)
2021  A Small Misunderstanding
2021  Abstract Eternalism
2021  Adventures of Cookie Truck
2021  Aspiring To Music
2021  Cartoonish 1-10
2021  Double Wow
2021  Eternal Beach
2021  Hoffman Student
2021  XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX
2022  America Let's Her Hair Down 1905
2022  Buster Keaton Embossed
2022  Real Action Figures
2022  Sergei Eisenstein Embossed
2022  When Timofeev Moves Everything Moves
2023  Book of Eternalisms 1-6
2023  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2023  From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
2023  One Dozen Roses
2023  Other Urban Lives
2023  Spasm
2023  Tourists of the Familiar 1
2023  Tourists of the Familiar 10
2023  Tourists of the Familiar 15
2023  Tourists of the Familiar 20
2023  Tourists of the Familiar 5
2023  Up the Illusion
2023  Whims of Twenty Twenty-Three
2023  Writhing City

Writer:
1955  Orchard Street
1956  Little Cobra Dance
1956  Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice
1962  Baud'larian Capers
1963  Blonde Cobra
1963  Little Stabs at Happiness
1963  TV Plug
1963  The Death of P'town
1964  1st Window
1964  Artie and Marty Rosenblatt’s Baby Pictures
1964  The Winter Footage
1964  We Stole Away
1964  Window
1964  Winter Sky
1965  Lisa and Joey in Connecticut
1965  Naomi Is A Dream of Loveliness
1967  Airshaft
1967  For Life, Against the War
1968  Soft Rain
1968  The Sky Socialist
1969  Globe
1969  Nissan Ariana Window
1969  Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
1970  Binghamton, My India
1973  Changing Azazel
1975  Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture
1975  Urban Peasants
1976  Spaghetti Aza
1977  The Doctor's Dream
1985  Perfect Film
1986  The Alps and The Jews
1990  Chronometer
1991  Keaton's Cops
1991  Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896
1994  Bitemporal Vision: The Sea
1995  Looting For Rodney
1995  Make Light On Film
1996  Disorient Express
1996  The Georgetown Loop
1999  Flo Rounds a Corner
1999  New York Street-Trollys 1900
2002  A Tom Tom Chaser
2002  Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence
2002  The Sky Socialist: Flight
2003  Keeping an Eye on Stan
2004  Mountaineer Spinning
2004  Star Spangled to Death
2005  Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise
2005  Incendiary Cinema
2005  Insistent Clamor
2005  Krypton Is Doomed
2005  Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 1888
2005  Let There Be Whistle Blowers
2005  Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye Molly
2005  Spiral Nebula
2006  Monks of Cinema
2006  Pushcarts of Eternity Street
2006  The Surging Sea of Humanity
2006  Two Wrenching Departures
2007  Capitalism: Child Labor
2007  Capitalism: Slavery
2007  Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World
2007  Hanky Panky January 1902
2007  Mosco Street Rapture
2007  Nervous Lantern at Kill Your Timid Notion Festival
2007  New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903
2007  Nymph
2007  Popeye Sees 3-D, TOO
2007  Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World
2007  The Whirled
2007  Titles
2007  We Are Charming
2008  Alone at Last
2008  Amorous Interludes: His Favorite Wife Improved (or The Virtue Of Bad Reception)
2008  Anaglyph Tom (Tom with Puffy Cheeks)
2008  Elbow Dance
2008  Love Story
2008  Return to the Scene of the Crime
2008  The Discovery
2008  The Scenic Route
2009  Berkeley To San Francisco
2009  Bob Fleischner Dying
2009  Brain Operations
2009  Brook
2009  Excerpt From THE SKY SOCIALIST Stratified
2009  Gravity Is Tops
2009  Hot Dogs At The Met
2009  Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days
2009  Ronald Gonzales, Sculptor
2009  The Day Was a Scorcher
2009  The Signing
2009  Walkway
2009  What Happened on 23rd Street in 1901
2009  “Slow is Beauty”—Rodin
2010  A Loft
2010  Fair And White: Parts I, II, III and Extra
2010  Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway
2010  Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two
2010  The Near-Collision
2011  60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2011  America at War, The Home Front: Film Opening
2011  Another Occupation
2011  Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
2011  DAY AND NIGHT
2011  Revolving Door
2011  Seeking the Monkey King
2011  The Green Wave
2011  The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street
2011  The Roses
2011  Turbulent Waters
2012  20 Little Films
2012  Blankets for Indians
2012  Street Vendor
2013  A Primer in Sky Socialism
2013  Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #1
2013  Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #2
2013  Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #3
2013  Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #4
2014  Canopy
2014  Celestial Bodies
2014  Popeye Sees 3-D
2014  Pygmalion Cubed
2014  The Guests
2014  Wire Fence
2015  Afternoon Tide
2015  Aimless Sightseeing, Seoul
2015  Batchellor’s Dog and Beach
2015  Chrysalis
2015  Cyclops Observes the Celestial Bodies
2015  Empty Seats
2015  The Lackadaisical Speed of Light
2015  Zazie Learns About Money
2016  Hydroelectric Dam
2016  I'm Telling You
2016  Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / JG Thirlwell @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / Robert Poss @The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / Tom Chiu of Flux Quartet @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / Victoria Keddie @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Ken Jacobs / diNMachine @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016  Lurking
2016  Molten Landscape
2016  Mosco Street 2
2016  Mosco Street 3: Attack of The Perfect Camera (Fuji W3)
2016  Reichstag 9/11
2017  A Spin Through Night City
2017  Along the Elevated
2017  Get Up and Go
2017  Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl
2017  Swee’pea’s Favorite Eternalisms
2017  Ulysses in the Subway
2017  Windbreaker
2018  The Moments: Evening Boat Ride
2019  Above the Rain
2019  CRUSH
2019  Cartoon
2019  Chaos Is Order Misunderstood
2019  Details of Pollock's White Light
2019  Dimsum and Dragons
2019  Failure
2019  Figures I - V
2019  Joan Mitchell: Departures
2019  MOVING ROAD
2019  Nervous Magic Lantern: 3D for One or Two Naked Eyes
2019  Once Upon a Planet
2019  PAPPY SEES 3D, TOO
2019  Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
2019  THE WHOLE SHEBANG
2019  The Sky Socialist: The Environs
2019  Things to Come
2020  Another Day in Days of Yore
2020  Bandit
2020  Barber
2020  Bargains
2020  Bison
2020  Brick Building with Red and Green Windows
2020  Broadway Building
2020  Broadway Buildings II
2020  Broadway Buildings III
2020  Chinese New Years
2020  Chinese New Years II
2020  City Foliage
2020  Clouds and Trees
2020  DR. TOOTHY
2020  DeKooning Passed
2020  Doyer Street
2020  Duck
2020  Facade with Face
2020  Fire Escape
2020  Flowers and Bike
2020  Foliage in Moving Car Window
2020  Friendly Building
2020  Garage Wall
2020  Halley’s Comet
2020  Hubble II
2020  Ken and Flo
2020  Lazy City
2020  Movie That Invites Pausing
2020  Municipal Building Passage
2020  Natural Collage
2020  Neon Sign
2020  PAINTED POSTER
2020  Period Piece
2020  RECIPROCAL
2020  Rain Clouds
2020  Reading Society
2020  Red Green
2020  Resting Merchant
2020  Roots of Manhattan
2020  Rubble
2020  Sleeping American
2020  Spaceworks
2020  Spiky
2020  Storefront
2020  Street Commerce
2020  Street Commerce II
2020  Transparent Apartments
2020  Waiting Room Window
2020  Water Balloon
2020  Whirlpool
2020  Working Girls (short)
2021  A Small Misunderstanding
2021  Abstract Eternalism
2021  Adventures of Cookie Truck
2021  Aspiring To Music
2021  Cartoonish 1-10
2021  Double Wow
2021  Eternal Beach
2021  Hoffman Student
2021  XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX
2022  America Let's Her Hair Down 1905
2022  Buster Keaton Embossed
2022  Real Action Figures
2022  Sergei Eisenstein Embossed
2022  When Timofeev Moves Everything Moves
2023  Book of Eternalisms 1-6
2023  Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2023  From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
2023  One Dozen Roses
2023  Other Urban Lives
2023  Spasm
2023  Tourists of the Familiar 1
2023  Tourists of the Familiar 10
2023  Tourists of the Familiar 15
2023  Tourists of the Familiar 20
2023  Tourists of the Familiar 5
2023  Up the Illusion
2023  Whims of Twenty Twenty-Three
2023  Writhing City

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