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The Nervous Art of Ken Jacobs
Short Films

Ken Jacobs and Flo Jacobs in Person
$10 Special Event Tickets
  • The Whirled

    Directed by Ken Jacobs.
    US, 1956-63, digital video, color and b&w, 16 min.

The Whirled comprises four short films: Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice (1956), Little Cobra Dance (1956), Hunch Your Back (1963) and Death of P’Town (1961).

  • Little Stabs at Happiness

    Directed by Ken Jacobs.
    US, 1958-60, 16mm, color, 18 min.
  • Window

    Directed by Ken Jacobs.
    US, 1964, 16mm, color, silent, 12 min.
  • Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896

    Directed by Ken Jacobs.
    US, 1990, 16mm, black & white, 11 min.
  • Krypton is Doomed

    Directed by Ken Jacobs.
    US, 2005, digital video, color, 34 min.

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