Directing · geboren 1933-05-25 · Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Ken Jacobs

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.

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• As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) – Self
• Blonde Cobra (1963)
• Walden (1968) – Self
• What Is Cinema? (2013) – Self
• Lost, Lost, Lost (1976) – Self
• Scotch Tape (1963)
• Little Stabs at Happiness (1963) – Director
• Capitalism: Slavery (2007) – Director
• Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1969) – Director
• Momma's Man (2008) – Dad
• Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011) – Himself
• Correspondencia Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin (2011) – Himself
• Star Spangled to Death (2004) – Oscar Friendly / Ringmaster / Janitor
• He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986) – Self (archive footage)
• Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2007) – Self
• 60 Sekundit Üksindust Aastal Null (2011) – Director
• Sleepless Nights Stories (2011) – Self
• Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise (2005) – Director
• The Georgetown Loop (1996) – Director
• Horizons (1973)
• Seeking the Monkey King (2011) – Director
• Jonas in the Desert (1994) – Self
• Flo Rounds a Corner (1999) – Director
• Window (1964) – Director
• Fragments of Paradise (2022) – Self
• Birth of a Nation (1997) – Self
• Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse (2025) – Self
• Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World (2007) – Director
• Canopy (2014) – Director
• Quartet Number One (1991)
• New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903 (2007) – Director
• Capitalism: Child Labor (2007) – Director
• Orchard Street (1955) – Director
• Two Wrenching Departures (2006) – Director
• Windbreaker (2017) – Director
• Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days (2009) – Director
• 365 Day Project (2007) – Self
• Emma's Dilemma (2012) – Himself
• Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta? (2010) – Himself
• A Loft (2010) – Editor