Directing
Ken Jacobs
1933-05-25 · Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA
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.
Known for
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Blonde Cobra
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
What Is Cinema?
Lost, Lost, Lost
Scotch Tape
Little Stabs at Happiness
Capitalism: Slavery
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
Momma's Man
Star Spangled to Death
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
Movie credits · 314
Downtown Loft with Skylights
A Date with Shirley
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 43
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 41
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 42
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 40
Book of Eternalisms 39
Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse
BMT
Riverbed
Tourists of the Familiar 70
Ken Jacobs - from Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern Art
Book of Eternalisms 8
Book of Eternalisms 7
For James Otis
Art-House America: Austin Film Society
Up the Illusion
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Writhing City
From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
Other Urban Lives
Book of Eternalisms 1-6
Spasm
Whims of Twenty Twenty-Three
Tourists of the Familiar 1
Tourists of the Familiar 5
Tourists of the Familiar 10
Tourists of the Familiar 15
Tourists of the Familiar 20
Manhattan is an Island
Hobgoblin Ball
Real Action Figures
When Timofeev Moves Everything Moves
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
Fragments of Paradise
Sergei Eisenstein Embossed
Buster Keaton Embossed
One Dozen Roses
America Lets Her Hair Down 1905
Eat the Rich: Aligning Perspectives and Other Challenges to Viewers
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