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.
Fotos
Películas (315)
About Space and Depth
2026
Downtown Loft with Skylights
2026 · Director
A Date with Shirley
2026 · Director
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 43
2026 · Director
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 41
2026 · Director
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 42
2026 · Director
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 40
2025 · Director
Book of Eternalisms 39
2025 · Director
Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse
2025 · Self
BMT
2025 · Director
Riverbed
2024 · Director
Tourists of the Familiar 70
2024 · Director
Ken Jacobs - from Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern Art
2023 · Self
Book of Eternalisms 8
2023 · Director
Book of Eternalisms 7
2023 · Director
For James Otis
2023 · Director
Art-House America: Austin Film Society
2023 · Self
Up the Illusion
2023 · Director
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2023 · Director
Writhing City
2023 · Director
Other Urban Lives
2023 · Director
From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
2023 · Director
Book of Eternalisms 1-6
2023 · Director
Spasm
2023 · Director
Whims of Twenty Twenty-Three
2023 · Director
Tourists of the Familiar 1
2023 · Director
Tourists of the Familiar 5
2023 · Director
Tourists of the Familiar 10
2023 · Director
Tourists of the Familiar 15
2023 · Director
Tourists of the Familiar 20
2023 · Director
Manhattan is an Island
2023 · Director
Hobgoblin Ball
2023 · Director
Real Action Figures
2022 · Director
When Timofeev Moves Everything Moves
2022 · Director
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
2022
Fragments of Paradise
2022 · Self
Sergei Eisenstein Embossed
2022 · Director
Buster Keaton Embossed
2022 · Director
One Dozen Roses
2022 · Director
America Lets Her Hair Down 1905
2022 · Director
Eat the Rich: Aligning Perspectives and Other Challenges to Viewers
2022 · Director
Eternal Beach
2021 · Director
Abstract Eternalism
2021 · Director
Double Wow
2021 · Director
XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX
2021 · Editor, Director
Cartoonish 1-10
2021 · Director
A Small Misunderstanding
2021 · Director
Adventures of Cookie Truck
2021 · Director
Hoffman Student
2021 · Director
Aspiring To Music
2021 · Director
In Front of Anthology
2021 · Director
Movie That Invites Pausing
2020 · Director
Transparent Apartments
2020 · Director
Spiky
2020 · Director
Storefront
2020 · Director
Municipal Building Passage
2020 · Director
Clouds and Trees
2020 · Director
Bandit
2020 · Director
Whirlpool
2020 · Director
Hubble II
2020 · Director
Halley’s Comet
2020 · Director
Water Balloon
2020 · Director
Spaceworks
2020 · Director
Another Day in Days of Yore
2020 · Director
Garage Wall
2020 · Director
Period Piece
2020 · Director
Street Commerce II
2020 · Director
Street Commerce
2020 · Director
Resting Merchant
2020 · Director
Broadway Buildings II
2020 · Director
Broadway Buildings III
2020 · Director
Neon Sign
2020 · Director
Flowers and Bike
2020 · Director
Chinese New Years II
2020 · Director
Chinese New Years
2020 · Director
Brick Building with Red and Green Windows
2020 · Director
Fire Escape
2020 · Director
Broadway Building
2020 · Director
Duck
2020 · Director
Doyer Street
2020 · Director
DeKooning Passed
2020 · Director
Sleeping American
2020 · Director
Roots of Manhattan
2020 · Director
Reading Society
2020 · Director
Lazy City
2020 · Director
Waiting Room Window
2020 · Director
Natural Collage
2020 · Director
Bison
2020 · Director
Working Girls (short)
2020 · Director
Friendly Building
2020 · Director
Bargains
2020 · Director
City Foliage
2020 · Director
Barber
2020 · Director
Foliage in Moving Car Window
2020 · Director
Facade with Face
2020 · Director
RECIPROCAL
2020 · Director
Red Green
2020 · Director
Ken and Flo
2020 · Director
Rain Clouds
2020 · Director
PAINTED POSTER
2020 · Director
DR. TOOTHY
2020 · Director
Rubble
2020 · Director
CRUSH
2019 · Director
PAPPY SEES 3D, TOO
2019 · Director
Failure
2019 · Director
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
2019 · Director
Things to Come
2019 · Director
MOVING ROAD
2019 · Director
Figures I - V
2019 · Director
THE WHOLE SHEBANG
2019 · Director
ABSTRACT
2019 · Director
Chaos Is Order Misunderstood
2019 · Director
Above the Rain
2019 · Director
The Sky Socialist: The Environs
2019 · Director
Joan Mitchell: Departures
2019 · Director
Once Upon a Planet
2019 · Director
Details of Pollock's White Light
2019 · Director
Cartoon
2019 · Director
Nervous Magic Lantern: 3D for One or Two Naked Eyes
2019 · Director
Dimsum and Dragons
2019 · Director
The Moments: Evening Boat Ride
2018 · Director
Tree Stump
2018 · Director
Swee’pea’s Favorite Eternalisms
2017 · Director
A Spin Through Night City
2017 · Director
Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl
2017 · Director
Get Up and Go
2017 · Director
Along the Elevated
2017 · Director
Beautiful Dreamer
2017 · Director
Ulysses in the Subway
2017 · Director
Windbreaker
2017 · Director
Capitalism Defeats Life on Earth, Cab in Rain
2017 · Director
Central Park
2016 · Director
Snow in Headlights II
2016 · Director
Reichstag 9/11
2016 · Director
BMT Canal Street
2016 · Director
Mosco Street 3: Attack of The Perfect Camera (Fuji W3)
2016 · Director
Mosco Street 2
2016 · Director
Lurking
2016 · Director
Molten Landscape
2016 · Director
Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
2016
Ken Jacobs / Victoria Keddie @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016 · Director
Ken Jacobs / Tom Chiu of Flux Quartet @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016 · Director
Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016 · Director
Ken Jacobs / Robert Poss @The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016 · Director
Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016 · Director
Ken Jacobs / diNMachine @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016 · Director
Ken Jacobs / JG Thirlwell @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016 · Director
Hydroelectric Dam
2016 · Director
I'm Telling You
2016 · Director
Empty Seats
2015 · Director
Batchellor’s Dog and Beach
2015 · Director
Afternoon Tide
2015 · Director
Zazie Learns About Money
2015 · Director
Aimless Sightseeing, Seoul
2015 · Director
Chrysalis
2015 · Director
Cyclops Observes the Celestial Bodies
2015 · Director, Writer
The Lackadaisical Speed of Light
2015 · Director
Granular
2015 · Director
Floral
2015 · Director
Wire Fence
2014 · Director
Canopy
2014 · Director
Pygmalion Cubed
2014 · Director
Celestial Bodies
2014 · Director
The Guests
2014 · Director
Popeye Sees 3-D
2014 · Director
A Primer in Sky Socialism
2013 · Director
What Is Cinema?
2013 · Self
The Eternal Courtship
2013
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #2
2013 · Director, Technical Supervisor
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #4
2013 · Director
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #3
2013 · Director
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #1
2013 · Director
Emma's Dilemma
2012 · Himself
Blankets for Indians
2012 · Director
Street Vendor
2012 · Director
20 Little Films
2012 · Director
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2011 · Director
Sleepless Nights Stories
2011 · Self
OCCUPY WALL STREET, THE 99% JOIN IN
2011 · Director
Seeking the Monkey King
2011 · Director
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011 · Himself
The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street
2011 · Director, Writer
America at War, The Home Front: Film Opening
2011 · Director
Revolving Door
2011 · Director
Turbulent Waters
2011 · Director
Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
2011 · Himself
The Roses
2011 · Director
The Green Wave
2011 · Director
Another Occupation
2011 · Director, Writer
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
2011 · Director
DAY AND NIGHT
2011 · Director
A Loft
2010 · Editor, Director
Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta?
2010 · Himself
Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two
2010 · Director
Fair And White: Parts I, II, III and Extra
2010 · Director
Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway
2010 · Director
The Near-Collision
2010 · Director
Lavender
2010 · Self
Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days
2009 · Director
Excerpt From THE SKY SOCIALIST Stratified
2009 · Director
Walkway
2009 · Director
Brook
2009 · Director
Brain Operations
2009 · Director
Bob Fleischner Dying
2009 · Director
Berkeley To San Francisco
2009 · Director
"Slow is Beauty"-Rodin
2009 · Director
What Happened on 23rd Street in 1901
2009 · Director
Hot Dogs At The Met
2009 · Director
Ronald Gonzales, Sculptor
2009 · Director
Gravity Is Tops
2009 · Director
The Day Was a Scorcher
2009 · Director, Writer
The Signing
2009 · Director
Return to the Scene of the Crime
2008 · Director
The Discovery
2008 · Director
Alone at Last
2008 · Director
Elbow Dance
2008 · Director
Amorous Interludes: His Favorite Wife Improved (or The Virtue Of Bad Reception)
2008 · Director
The Scenic Route
2008 · Director
Love Story
2008 · Director
Anaglyph Tom (Tom with Puffy Cheeks)
2008 · Director
Momma's Man
2008 · Dad
365 Day Project
2007 · Self
Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World
2007 · Director
Nymph
2007 · Director
Hanky Panky January 1902
2007 · Director
We Are Charming
2007 · Director
Titles
2007 · Director
Popeye Sees 3-D, TOO
2007 · Director
Mosco Street Rapture
2007 · Director
Capitalism: Slavery
2007 · Director
Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World
2007 · Director
Nervous Lantern at Kill Your Timid Notion Festival
2007 · Director
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007 · Self
New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903
2007 · Director, Producer
Capitalism: Child Labor
2007 · Director
Monks of Cinema
2006 · Camera Operator
Pushcarts of Eternity Street
2006 · Director
The Surging Sea of Humanity
2006 · Director
Two Wrenching Departures
2006 · Director
Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise
2005 · Director, Producer, Editor
Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 1888
2005 · Director
Insistent Clamor
2005 · Director
Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye Molly
2005 · Director
Let There Be Whistle Blowers
2005 · Director
Krypton Is Doomed
2005 · Director
Spiral Nebula
2005 · Director, Writer
Mountaineer Spinning
2004 · Director
Star Spangled to Death
2004 · Oscar Friendly / Ringmaster / Janitor, Director, Editor, Cinematography, Writer
Nervous Ken
2003
Keeping an Eye on Stan
2003 · Director
The Whirled
2003 · Director
Shorts From the Underground
2002 · Self
Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence
2002 · Director
A Tom Tom Chaser
2002 · Director
The Sky Socialist: Flight
2002 · Director
Flo and Ken Jacobs
2001
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000 · Self
New York Street Trolleys 1900
1999 · Director
Laboratorium Anthology
1999
Flo Rounds a Corner
1999 · Director
Birth of a Nation
1997 · Self
Disorient Express
1996 · Director
The Georgetown Loop
1996 · Director
Looting For Rodney
1995 · Director
Make Light On Film
1995 · Director
Bitemporal Vision: The Sea
1994 · Director
Jonas in the Desert
1994 · Self
Quartet Number One
1991
Keaton's Cops
1991 · Writer, Director
Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896
1991 · Director, Writer
Chronometer
1990 · Director
The Alps and The Jews
1986 · Director
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986 · Self (archive footage)
Perfect Film
1985 · Director
Home Movies 1971-81
1985
The Doctor's Dream
1977 · Director
Book of Splendors, Part Two, Book of Levers: Action at a Distance
1977 · Director
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976 · Self
Spaghetti Aza
1976 · Director
Urban Peasants
1975 · Director
Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture
1975 · Director
Horizons
1973
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
1973
Changing Azazel
1973 · Director
Binghamton, My India
1970 · Director
Nissan Ariana Window
1969 · Director
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
1969 · Director
Globe
1969 · Director
Huge Pupils
1968 · Himself
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968 · Self
Soft Rain
1968 · Director
For Life, Against the War
1967 · Director
Bill's Hat
1967
Airshaft
1967 · Director
The Sky Socialist
1966 · Director
Lisa and Joey in Connecticut
1965 · Director
Naomi Is A Dream of Loveliness
1965 · Director
1st Window
1964 · Director
Window
1964 · Cinematography, Producer, Director, Editor
We Stole Away
1964 · Director
The Winter Footage
1964 · Director
Winter Sky
1964 · Director
Artie and Marty Rosenblatt’s Baby Pictures
1964 · Director
Little Stabs at Happiness
1963 · Director
TV Plug
1963 · Director
Blonde Cobra
1963 · Director
Scotch Tape
1963
Baud'larian Capers
1962 · Director
The Death of P'town
1961 · Director
Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice
1956 · Director
Little Cobra Dance
1956 · Director
Orchard Street
1955 · Director
Sky Dive
· Director
Depth for One Eye or Two
· Director
Spotted Fever
· Director
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