KEN JACOBS interviewed

“I don’t offer delusions”

KEN JACOBS interviewed

“I don’t offer delusions”

Ken Jacobs interviewed by Alberte Pagán

[published online 25-05-2016]
[an excerpt of the interview was published in Spanish in Caimán Cuadernos de Cine in July/August 2015]
[collected in the book Emotional Materials / Personal Processes. Six Interviews with Experimental Filmmakers, StereoEditions, 2022]

Filmography of Ken Jacobs

This filmography is partly based on information provided at the end of Optic Antics. The Cinema of Ken Jacobs (edited by David E. James and Paul Arthur) and on Fabriques du cinéma expérimental (by Éric Thouvenel and Carole Contant). Performances, live shadow plays and installations are not included, unless there is a distributed digital reworking or a video recording of them. Ken Jacobs is currently very active uploading recent short pieces and older films onto his Vimeo account.

8mm and 16mm films:

Orchard Street (1955-2014, 27’)
The Whirled (1956-1961, 19’), comprising:

Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice (1956, 4’)
Little Cobra Dance (1956, 2’)
TV Plug (1963, 7’)
The Death of P’town (1961, 5’)

Star Spangled to Death (1956-2004, 430’)
Little Stabs at Happiness (1958-1960, 15’)
Blonde Cobra (1959-1963, 30’)
Artie and Marty Rosenblatt’s Baby Pictures (1963, 4’)
Baud’larian Capers (A Musical with Nazis and Jews) (1963, 25’)
Window (1964, 12’)
The Winter Footage (1964, 50’)
We Stole Away (1964, 64’)
Winter Sky (1964, 14’)
The Sky Socialist (1964-1968, 140’)
Lisa and Joey in Connecticut, January ’65: “You’ve Come Back!” “You’re Still Here!” (1965, 18’)
Naomi is a Dream of Loveliness (1965, 3’)
Airshaft (1967, 4’)
Soft Rain (1968, 12’)
Nissan Ariana Window (1968, 15’)
Tom Tom the Piper’s Son (1969-1971, 115’)
Globe (1969-1971, 22’)
Binghamton, My India (1969-1970, 25’)
Changing Azazel (1973, 4’)
Urban Peasants (1975, 51’)
Jerry Takes a Back Seat, Then Passes Out of the Picture (1975, 15’)
Spaghetti Aza (1976, 1’)
The Doctor’s Dream (1978, 23’)
Perfect Film (1985, 22’)
Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896 (1990, 9’)
Keaton’s Cops (1991, 18’)
Bitemporal Vision: the Sea (1994, 80′)
Looting for Rodney (1994-1995, 11’)
Make Light on Film (1995, 15’)
Disorient Express (1996, 16mm, 30’)
Coupling (1996, 60′)
Loco Motion (1996, 25′)
The Georgetown Loop (1998, 11’)

Digital films:

Flo Rounds a Corner (1999, 6’)
New York Street Trolleys 1900 (1999, 11’)
A Tom Tom Chaser (2002, 11’)
CIRCLING ZERO: Part One, We See Absence (2002, 114’)
Keeping an Eye on Stan (2003, 117’)
Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise (2004, 108’)
Mountaineer Spinning (2004, 26’)
Krypton is Doomed (2005, 34’)
Insistent Clamor (2005, 22’)
Leeds Bridge 1888 (2005, 6’)
Spiral Nebula (2005, 46’)
Incendiary Cinema (2005, 1’)
Let There Be Whistleblowers (2005, 18’)
Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye, Molly! (2005, 86’)
New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903 (2006, 132’)
Pushcarts of Eternity Street (2006, 11’)
Two Wrenching Departures (2006, 90’)
Chronometer (2006, 24′)
Capitalism: Child Labor (2006, 14’)
Capitalism: Slavery (2006, 3’)
The Surging Sea of Humanity (2006, 11’)
RAZZLE DAZZLE: The Lost World (2006-2007, 92’)
Hanky Panky January 1902 (2007, 1’)
We Are Charming (2007, 1′)
Nymph (2007, 2’)
GIFT OF FIRE: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames that Changed the World (2007, 28’)
Return to the Scene of the Crime (2008, 92’)
Anaglyph Tom (Tom with Puffy Cheeks) (2008, 108’)
The Scenic Route (2008, 25’)
The Guests (2008, 89’)
Amorous Interludes (2008, 13’), comprising:

His Favorite Wife Improved (or The Virtue of Bad Reception) (2008, 2’)
Alone at Last (2008, 2’)
The Discovery (2008, 5’)
Love Story (2008, 3’)
We Are Charming (2008, 1’)

Hot Dogs at the Met (2008, 10’)
Berkeley to San Francisco (2009, 24′)
What Happened on 23rd Street in 1901 (2009, 14’)
“Slow is Beauty” – Rodin (2009, 51’)
Brook (2009, 2’)
Bob Fleischner Dying (2009, 2’)
The Day Was a Scorcher (2009, 8’)
Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days (2009, 3’)
Walkway (2009, 8’)
excerpt from THE SKY SOCIALIST stratified (2009, 18’)
BRAIN OPERATIONS (2009, 22’)
Ronald Gonzales, Sculptor (2009, 21’)
Gravity is Tops (2009, 11’)
Berkeley to San Francisco (2009, 24’)
Fair and White, Parts I, II, III and Extra (2010, 133’)
SENSORIUMS AT SEA: Dr. Toothy’s New Entranceway (2010, 10’)
SENSORIUMS AT SEA: Toothy Two (2010, 8’)
The Near-Collision (2010, 28’)
A Loft (2010, 17’)
A Train Arriving at a Station (57th Street) (2010, 19’)
The Pushcarts Depart the Scene (2010, 13’)
Day and Night (2011, 3′)
Revolving Door (2011, 5′)
The Pushcarts of Eternity Street (2011, 11’)
America at War (2011, 32′)
Seeking the Monkey King (2011, 40’)
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011, 1′)
Another Occupation (2011, 15’)
The Green Wave (2011, 6′)
The Roses (2011, 5′)
Street Vendor (2012, 6′)
Blankets for Indians (2012, 57’)
Occupy Wall Street in 3D. The 99% Join (2012, 72’)
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman (2012, 47’)
A Primer in Sky Socialism (2013, 58’)
Cyclops Observes the Celestial Bodies (2014, 16’)
Canopy (2014, 5’)