Star Spangled To Death
About
Made 1956-60/2003-04
Is an epic film shot for hundreds of dollars! Combining found-films with my own more-or-less staged filming, it pictures a stolen and dangerously sold-out America, allowing examples of popular culture to self-indict. Racial and religious insanity, monopolization of weath and the purposeful dumbing down of citizens and addiction to war oppose a beat playfulness. A handful of artists costumed and performing unconvincingly appeal to audience imagination and understanding to complete the picture. Jack Smith's pre-Flaming Creatures performance as The Spirit Not Of Life But Of Living (the movie has raggedly comsmic pretensions), celebrating Suffering (rattled and impoverished artist Jerry Sims) at teh crux of sentient existence, is truly a visitation of the divine. Assisted by Nisi Jacobs
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
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 More
Two Wrenching Departures
Ken Jacobsblack and white, sound, 90 min - 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
Capitalism: Child Labor
Ken Jacobscolor, sound, 14 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 MoreExperimental
Return to the Scene of the Crime
Ken Jacobscolor, sound, 93 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
The Scenic Route
Ken Jacobscolor and b/w, sound, 25 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 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
Seeking the Monkey King
Ken Jacobscolor, sound, 40 minRental format: DVD NTSC - Read MoreExperimental
Another Occupation
Ken Jacobscolor and b/w, sound, 14 minRental format: DVD NTSC