Ken Jacobs
Directing
Born May 25, 1933 — Died October 5, 2025
From Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Also known as 켄 제이콥스
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 b...
Filmography
Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse
Self
20258.3
Ken Jacobs - from Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern Art
Self
2023
Art-House America: Austin Film Society
Self
2023
Up the Illusion
2023
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Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
2022
Fragments of Paradise
Self
20226.5
Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
2016
What Is Cinema?
Self
20136.5
The Eternal Courtship
2013
Emma's Dilemma
Himself
20121.0
Sleepless Nights Stories
Self
20115.3
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Himself
20116.8
Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
Himself
20117.0
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
2011
Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta?
Himself
20105.0
Lavender
Self
2010
Momma's Man
Dad
20086.2
365 Day Project
Self
200710.0
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Self
20076.6
Star Spangled to Death
Oscar Friendly / Ringmaster / Janitor
20047.7
Nervous Ken
2003
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Shorts From the Underground
Self
2002
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Flo and Ken Jacobs
2001
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Self
20007.7
Birth of a Nation
Self
19977.0
Jonas in the Desert
Self
19946.4
Quartet Number One
19917.5
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Self (archive footage)
19868.4
Home Movies 1971-81
1985
Lost, Lost, Lost
Self
19767.1
Horizons
19738.5
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
1973
Huge Pupils
Himself
1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Self
19687.2
Bill's Hat
1967
Blonde Cobra
19633.0
Scotch Tape
19624.4