Return to the Scene of the Crime
Ken Jacobs • 1h 33m
Ken Jacobs • United States • 2008 • Ken Jacobs' attempt to "seize" Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son.
Ken Jacobs revisits Billy Bitzer’s Tom, Tom, The Piper’s Son—which he first disassembled in his 1969 film of the same name—to once again explore the vagaries of the visual and its endless capacity for manipulation.
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Seeking the Monkey King
Ken Jacobs • United States • 2011 • An investigation of the space between two and three dimensions.
In Jacobs’s words, “The film could have well been called Kicking and Screaming but that only describes me in the process of making it, questioning its taste. Once the message kicked in it overrod...
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The Georgetown Loop
Ken Jacobs • United States • 1996 • Per Jacobs, "The first landscape film deserving of an X-rating."
Jacobs manipulates The Georgetown Loop (Colorado), archival footage shot in 1903 of a train that passes by the town of Georgetown, Colorado, near the Rocky Mountains. The mountain vista is mirro...
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The Sky Socialist
Ken Jacobs • United States • 1968 • Ken Jacobs' story of impossible love.
Ken Jacobs's most elusive and mysterious film is at once an allegory of movie-making, a demonstration of 8mm versatility, and a celebration of a now-vanished neighborhood beneath the Brooklyn Bridge.
