Biography
A pioneer of the American film avant-garde of the 1960s and '70s, Ken Jacobs is a central figure in post-war experimental cinema. From his first films of the late 1950s to his recent experiments with digital video, his investigations and innovations have influenced countless artists.
A New Yorker by birth, Jacobs graduated from City University to find himself in the midst of the downtown art scene of the 1960s, which included artists Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol, beat writers Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac; and the experimental theater troupes of Trisha Brown and Yvonne Rainer. Although Jacobs had studied painting with Hans Hoffman, he quickly gravitated to film, finding kindred spirits in radical filmmakers such as Jonas Mekas and Hollis Frampton. An early friendship with Jack Smith yielded several collaborations, including the seminal underground films Blonde Cobra (which Jonas Mekas dubbed "the masterpiece of Baudelairean cinema") and Little Stabs at Happiness, as well as a Provincetown beach-based live show, The Human Wreckage Review.
Filmography
all 270
Movies 270
Director 242
self 18
One Dozen Roses (2023)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2023)
Up the Illusion (2023)
Writhing City (2023)
From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight (2023)
Other Urban Lives (2023)
Book of Eternalisms 1-6 (2023)
Tourists of the Familiar 20 (2023)
Tourists of the Familiar 15 (2023)
Tourists of the Familiar 10 (2023)
Tourists of the Familiar 5 (2023)
Tourists of the Familiar 1 (2023)
Whims of Twenty Twenty-Three (2023)
Spasm (2023)
Real Action Figures (2022)
When Timofeev Moves Everything Moves (2022)
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages (2022)
Fragments of Paradise (2022)
Sergei Eisenstein Embossed (2022)
Buster Keaton Embossed (2022)
America Let's Her Hair Down 1905 (2022)
Eternal Beach (2021)
Abstract Eternalism (2021)
Double Wow (2021)
XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX (2021)
Hoffman Student (2021)
Adventures of Cookie Truck (2021)
A Small Misunderstanding (2021)
Cartoonish 1-10 (2021)
Aspiring To Music (2021)
Movie That Invites Pausing (2020)
Storefront (2020)
Transparent Apartments (2020)
Spiky (2020)
Municipal Building Passage (2020)
Clouds and Trees (2020)
Bandit (2020)
Whirlpool (2020)
Hubble II (2020)
Water Balloon (2020)
Spaceworks (2020)
Halley’s Comet (2020)
Another Day in Days of Yore (2020)
Garage Wall (2020)
Period Piece (2020)
Street Commerce II (2020)
Street Commerce (2020)
Resting Merchant (2020)
Broadway Buildings II (2020)
Broadway Buildings III (2020)
Neon Sign (2020)
Flowers and Bike (2020)
Brick Building with Red and Green Windows (2020)
Broadway Building (2020)
Duck (2020)
Chinese New Years (2020)
Chinese New Years II (2020)
Fire Escape (2020)
Lazy City (2020)
Reading Society (2020)
City Foliage (2020)
Bison (2020)
Waiting Room Window (2020)
Roots of Manhattan (2020)
Natural Collage (2020)
Friendly Building (2020)
Sleeping American (2020)
DeKooning Passed (2020)
Doyer Street (2020)
Working Girls (short) (2020)
Bargains (2020)
Barber (2020)
Facade with Face (2020)
Foliage in Moving Car Window (2020)
RECIPROCAL (2020)
Red Green (2020)
Ken and Flo (2020)
PAINTED POSTER (2020)
Rain Clouds (2020)
DR. TOOTHY (2020)
Rubble (2020)
CRUSH (2019)
PAPPY SEES 3D, TOO (2019)
Failure (2019)
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party (2019)
MOVING ROAD (2019)
Things to Come (2019)
Figures I - V (2019)
THE WHOLE SHEBANG (2019)
Chaos Is Order Misunderstood (2019)
Above the Rain (2019)
The Sky Socialist: The Environs (2019)
Joan Mitchell: Departures (2019)
Once Upon a Planet (2019)
Details of Pollock's White Light (2019)
Dimsum and Dragons (2019)
Nervous Magic Lantern: 3D for One or Two Naked Eyes (2019)
Cartoon (2019)
The Moments: Evening Boat Ride (2018)
Swee’pea’s Favorite Eternalisms (2017)
Along the Elevated (2017)
Get Up and Go (2017)
Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl (2017)
A Spin Through Night City (2017)
Ulysses in the Subway (2017)
Windbreaker (2017)
Reichstag 9/11 (2016)
Lurking (2016)
Molten Landscape (2016)
Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas (2016)
Ken Jacobs / Victoria Keddie @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival (2016)
Ken Jacobs / Tom Chiu of Flux Quartet @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival (2016)
Ken Jacobs / Robert Poss @The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival (2016)
Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival (2016)
Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival (2016)
Ken Jacobs / diNMachine @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival (2016)
Ken Jacobs / JG Thirlwell @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival (2016)
I'm Telling You (2016)
Hydroelectric Dam (2016)
Zazie Learns About Money (2015)
Aimless Sightseeing, Seoul (2015)
Chrysalis (2015)
Cyclops Observes the Celestial Bodies (2015)
The Lackadaisical Speed of Light (2015)
Wire Fence (2014)
Canopy (2014)
Pygmalion Cubed (2014)
Celestial Bodies (2014)
The Guests (2014)
Popeye Sees 3-D (2014)
What Is Cinema? (2013)
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #1 (2013)
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #4 (2013)
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #3 (2013)
A Primer in Sky Socialism (2013)
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #2 (2013)
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man (2012)
Emma's Dilemma (2012)
Blankets for Indians (2012)
Street Vendor (2012)
20 Little Films (2012)
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011)
Sleepless Nights Stories (2011)
Seeking the Monkey King (2011)
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011)
The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street (2011)
America at War, The Home Front: Film Opening (2011)
Revolving Door (2011)
Turbulent Waters (2011)
Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin (2011)
The Roses (2011)
The Green Wave (2011)
Another Occupation (2011)
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman (2011)
DAY AND NIGHT (2011)
A Loft (2010)
Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta? (2010)
Fair And White: Parts I, II, III and Extra (2010)
The Near-Collision (2010)
Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two (2010)
Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway (2010)
Lavender (2010)
Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days (2009)
Walkway (2009)
Excerpt From THE SKY SOCIALIST Stratified (2009)
Brook (2009)
Bob Fleischner Dying (2009)
Brain Operations (2009)
Berkeley To San Francisco (2009)
What Happened on 23rd Street in 1901 (2009)
“Slow is Beauty”—Rodin (2009)
Hot Dogs At The Met (2009)
Ronald Gonzales, Sculptor (2009)
Gravity Is Tops (2009)
The Signing (2009)
The Day Was a Scorcher (2009)
Return to the Scene of the Crime (2008)
Elbow Dance (2008)
The Discovery (2008)
Alone at Last (2008)
Amorous Interludes: His Favorite Wife Improved (or The Virtue Of Bad Reception) (2008)
The Scenic Route (2008)
Love Story (2008)
Anaglyph Tom (Tom with Puffy Cheeks) (2008)
Momma's Man (2008)
We Are Charming (2007)
Nymph (2007)
Hanky Panky January 1902 (2007)
Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World (2007)
Mosco Street Rapture (2007)
Popeye Sees 3-D, TOO (2007)
Titles (2007)
The Whirled (2007)
Capitalism: Slavery (2007)
Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World (2007)
Nervous Lantern at Kill Your Timid Notion Festival (2007)
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2007)
New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903 (2007)
Capitalism: Child Labor (2007)
Monks of Cinema (2006)
Pushcarts of Eternity Street (2006)
The Surging Sea of Humanity (2006)
Two Wrenching Departures (2006)
Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise (2005)
Incendiary Cinema (2005)
Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 1888 (2005)
Insistent Clamor (2005)
Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye Molly (2005)
Krypton Is Doomed (2005)
Spiral Nebula (2005)
Let There Be Whistle Blowers (2005)
Mountaineer Spinning (2004)
Star Spangled to Death (2004)
Keeping an Eye on Stan (2003)
Shorts From the Underground (2002)
Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence (2002)
A Tom Tom Chaser (2002)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
New York Street-Trollys 1900 (1999)
Flo Rounds a Corner (1999)
Birth of a Nation (1997)
Disorient Express (1996)
The Georgetown Loop (1996)
Looting For Rodney (1995)
Make Light On Film (1995)
Bitemporal Vision: The Sea (1994)
Jonas in the Desert (1994)
Quartet Number One (1991)
Keaton's Cops (1991)
Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896 (1991)
Chronometer (1990)
The Alps and The Jews (1986)
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986)
Perfect Film (1985)
Home Movies 1971-81 (1985)
The Doctor's Dream (1977)
Lost, Lost, Lost (1976)
Spaghetti Aza (1976)
Urban Peasants (1975)
Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture (1975)
Changing Azazel (1973)
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972)
Binghamton, My India (1970)
Nissan Ariana Window (1969)
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1969)
Globe (1969)
The Sky Socialist (1968)
Huge Pupils (1968)
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968)
Soft Rain (1968)
For Life, Against the War (1967)
Bill's Hat (1967)
Airshaft (1967)
Lisa and Joey in Connecticut (1965)
Naomi Is A Dream of Loveliness (1965)
1st Window (1964)
Window (1964)
We Stole Away (1964)
The Winter Footage (1964)
Winter Sky (1964)
Little Stabs at Happiness (1963)
Artie and Marty Rosenblatt’s Baby Pictures (1963)
TV Plug (1963)
Blonde Cobra (1963)
The Death of P'town (1963)
Scotch Tape (1962)
Baud'larian Capers (1962)
Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice (1956)
Little Cobra Dance (1956)
Orchard Street (1955)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1933-05-25 (90 years old)
Birth PlaceBrooklyn, United States of America
ChildrenAzazel Jacobs
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known As켄 제이콥스
AwardsMaya Deren Award, Guggenheim Fellowship
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