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Ken Jacobs

Known for: Directing

Biography: 1933-05-25 (91 years old)

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 277

Movies 277

Director 246

self 19

Director

Ken Jacobs

Biography

Filmography

all 277

Movies 277

Director 246

self 19

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)

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (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)