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Ken Jacobs
Directing
25 May 1933
† 05 Oct 2025
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA
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 Ginsb...
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Ken Jacobs's Movies
77%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
05 Nov 2000
30%
Blonde Cobra
08 Apr 1963
72%
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
01 Mar 1968
65%
What Is Cinema?
06 Sept 2013
71%
Lost, Lost, Lost
14 Sept 1976
44%
Scotch Tape
01 Jan 1962
62%
Momma's Man
18 Jan 2008
68%
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
24 Jul 2011
70%
Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
09 Apr 2011
77%
Star Spangled to Death
21 May 2004
84%
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
22 Feb 1986
66%
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
11 Apr 2007
53%
Sleepless Nights Stories
15 Dec 2011
85%
Horizons
01 Jul 1973
64%
Jonas in the Desert
01 Jan 1994
65%
Fragments of Paradise
31 Aug 2022
70%
Birth of a Nation
06 Aug 1997
75%
Quartet Number One
03 Jul 1991
100%
365 Day Project
31 Dec 2007
10%
Emma's Dilemma
18 Jun 2012