Nervous System / Nervous Magic Lantern
“Jacobs reduces cinema to its essential ingredients, creating ‘film-performances’ that are at once seductive and radically disorienting.”
— Kristin M. Jones, Artforum, 1997
Live cinema performances by Ken and Flo Jacobs, presented from the mid-1960s onward — the double-projection Nervous System and the 3-D Nervous Magic Lantern.
Capitalism: Child Labor (2006) / Capitalism: Slavery (2006)
Digital works animating antique stereograph images.
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Perfect Film (1986)
Found footage of man-on-the-street interviews from the day of Malcolm X’s assassination, presented unedited.
The Sky Socialist (1965)
Screened at Film at Lincoln Center in April 2026 alongside Momma’s Man as part of The Whole Shebang.