Ken Jacobs
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.
Known For Directing
Most Rating 1.6
Birthday 1933-05-25
Place of Birth Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Also Known As 켄 제이콥스,
Scotch Tape
1962

Scotch Tape

Momma's Man
2008

Momma's Man

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Lavender
2010

Lavender

Home Movies 1971-81
1985

Home Movies 1971-81

Sleepless Nights Stories
2011

Sleepless Nights Stories

Fragments of Paradise
2022

Fragments of Paradise

Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
2022

Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages

Huge Pupils
1968

Huge Pupils

Blonde Cobra
1963

Blonde Cobra

Shorts From the Underground
2002

Shorts From the Underground

365 Day Project
2007

365 Day Project

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000

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

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

Birth of a Nation
1997

Birth of a Nation

Bill's Hat
1967

Bill's Hat

What Is Cinema?
2013

What Is Cinema?

Star Spangled to Death
2004

Star Spangled to Death

Jonas in the Desert
1994

Jonas in the Desert

Emma's Dilemma
2012

Emma's Dilemma

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
2013

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

Lost, Lost, Lost
1976

Lost, Lost, Lost

Quartet Number One
1991

Quartet Number One

Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
2011

Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin

Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta?
2010

Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta?

Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
2016

Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas