Two Wrenching Departures
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About
Life ended, for separate health reasons, for two “underground” avant-garde filmmakers: Bob Fleischner and Jack Smith, a few days apart in late 1989. The two had been cinema-mad cohorts of film-artist Ken Jacobs in pre-fashionable Lower East Side, NYC in the 1950s. Jacob’s seminal BLONDE COBRA is founded on remaining footage, shot by Fleischner of Smith, which survived a fire in Smith’s apartment. TWO WRENCHING DEPARTURES, is a tribute to the life-force of Jacobs' fellow artists and a digital version of the his livel Nervous System film-performance presented at The American Museum of the Moving Image weeks after they died. At first, Fleisher is seen hopping and skipping toward the camera on a back street in lower Manhattan, happily jittering in a back and forth, energetically overlapping, staccato etude. Jack then takes over, lordly and absurd. This digital rescue of the transient theater-piece was assisted by Flo Jacobs and Erik Nelson
Films
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Whirled, The (aka Four Shorts of Jack Smith)
Ken JacobsDVD 16mm, color and b/w, sound, 19 minRental formats: 16mm, DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Blonde Cobra
Ken Jacobs16mm, color and b/w, sound, 33 minRental formats: 16mm, Digital file, DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Little Stabs At Happiness
Ken Jacobs16mm, color, sound, 15 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Baud'larian Capers
Ken Jacobs16mm DVD, color, sound, 15 minRental formats: 16mm, DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Window
Ken Jacobs16mm, color, silent, 12 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
The Sky Socialist
Ken Jacobs16mm, color, sound, 90 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Airshaft
Ken Jacobs16mm, color, silent, 4 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Soft Rain
Ken Jacobs16mm, color, silent, 12 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Nissan Ariana Window
Ken Jacobs16mm, color, silent, 14 minRental formats: DVD NTSC, 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Tom, Tom, The Piper's Son
Ken Jacobs16mm, color and b/w, silent, 115 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Globe
Ken Jacobs16mm, color, sound on separate reel(s), 22 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Urban Peasants
Ken Jacobs16mm, color and b/w, sound on separate reel(s), 60 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
The Doctor's Dream
Ken Jacobs16mm or DVD, black and white, sound, 23 minRental formats: 16mm, DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
The Winter Footage
Ken Jacobs16mm, color, silent, 42 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreDocumentaryExperimental
Perfect Film
Ken Jacobs16mm, black and white, sound, 22 minRental formats: 16mm, DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Jerry Takes a Back Seat, Then Passes Out of the Picture
Ken Jacobs16mm, color, silent, 11 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Chronometer
Ken JacobsDVD, color, sound, 22 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Keaton's Cop
Ken Jacobs16mm, black and white, silent, 18 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Opening The Nineteenth Century: 1896
Ken Jacobs16mm, black and white, sound, 9 minRental format: 16mm - Read MoreExperimental
Disorient Express
Ken Jacobs35mm, black and white, silent, 30 minRental format: 35mm - Read MoreExperimental
Make Light On Film (with Pulfrich filters)
Ken JacobsDVD, sound, 15 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
New York Street Trolley
Ken JacobsDVD, black and white, sound, 10 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
A Tom Tom Chaser
Ken JacobsDVD, black and white, silent, 10 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Star Spangled To Death
Ken JacobsDVD, color and b/w, sound, 440 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Mountaineer Spinning
Ken JacobsDVD, sound, 26 min - Read MoreExperimental
Let There Be Whistleblowers
Ken JacobsDVD, sound, 18 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye, Molly
Ken JacobsDVD, sound, 90 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Insistent Clamor
Ken JacobsDVD, sound, 22 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Krypton Is Doomed
Ken JacobsDVD, sound, 34 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Nervous Magic Lantern: Spiral Nebula
Ken JacobsDVD, sound, 45 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Pushcarts Of Eternity Street
Ken JacobsVideo, black and white, sound, 10 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Capitalism: Slavery
Ken Jacobsblack and white, silent, 3 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Capitalism: Child Labor
Ken Jacobscolor, sound, 14 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Ken Jacobs DVD Box Set: RAZZLE DAZZLE: THE LOST WORLD, RETURN TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME, and ANAGLYPH TOM (TOM WITH PUFFY CHEEKS)
Ken Jacobsanaglyph 3-d color and b/w, sound, 303 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Ken Jacobs's Blu-Ray Compilation #1
Ken Jacobscolor and b/w, sound, 42 minRental formats: 16mm, DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
The Surging Sea of Humanity
Ken Jacobscolor, silent, 11 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Amorous Interludes
Ken Jacobscolor and b/w, silent and sound, 14 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read More
Razzle Dazzle the Lost World
Ken Jacobscolor and b/w, 90 minRental formats: DVD NTSC, Digi Beta NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
The Scenic Route
Ken Jacobscolor and b/w, sound, 25 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
ANAGLYPH TOM (Tom With Puffy Cheeks)
Ken Jacobsanaglyph 3-d color, sound, 109 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Return to the Scene of the Crime
Ken Jacobscolor, sound, 93 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreDocumentaryExperimental
The Day Was a Scorcher
Ken Jacobscolor, silent, 8 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Hot Dogs at the Met
Ken Jacobscolor, sound, 10 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Jonas Mekas In Kodachrome Days
Ken Jacobscolor, silent, 3 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Walkway
Ken Jacobscolor, sound, 8.2 minRental format: mini DV NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street
Ken Jacobscolor, sound, 13 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Another Occupation
Ken Jacobscolor and b/w, sound, 14 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Seeking the Monkey King
Ken Jacobscolor, sound, 40 minRental format: DVD NTSC