Cast
Ken Jacobs
Directing
Cast
Ken Jacobs
Known for
Directing
Born
1933-05-25
From
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Died
2025-10-05
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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 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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5.0
MOVIE2010
Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta?
as Himself
MOVIE1973
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: âAutobiography in American Independent Cinemaâ
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7.7
MOVIE2000
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
as Self
MOVIE2016
Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
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3.0
MOVIE1963
Blonde Cobra
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6.5
MOVIE2013
What Is Cinema?
as Self
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7.2
MOVIE1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self
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7.1
MOVIE1976
Lost, Lost, Lost
as Self
MOVIE2023
Up the Illusion
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6.5
MOVIE2022
Fragments of Paradise
as Self
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6.4
MOVIE1994
Jonas in the Desert
as Self
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10.0
MOVIE2007
365 Day Project
as Self
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7.0
MOVIE1997
Birth of a Nation
as Self
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5.3
MOVIE2011
Sleepless Nights Stories
as Self
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6.8
MOVIE2011
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
as Himself
MOVIE1985
Home Movies 1971-81
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6.2
MOVIE2008
Momma's Man
as Dad
MOVIE2023
Art-House America: Austin Film Society
as Self
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7.7
MOVIE2004
Star Spangled to Death
as Oscar Friendly / Ringmaster / Janitor
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8.7
MOVIE2025
Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse
as Self
MOVIE2001
Flo and Ken Jacobs
MOVIE2011
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
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6.6
MOVIE2007
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
as Self
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8.4
MOVIE1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
as Self (archive footage)
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7.5
MOVIE1991
Quartet Number One
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4.4
MOVIE1962
Scotch Tape
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7.0
MOVIE2011
Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
as Himself
MOVIE1967
Bill's Hat
MOVIE2010
Lavender
as Self
MOVIE2002
Shorts From the Underground
as Self
MOVIE2013
The Eternal Courtship
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8.5
MOVIE1973
Horizons
MOVIE2023
Ken Jacobs - from Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern Art
as Self
MOVIE2003
Nervous Ken
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1.0
MOVIE2012
Emma's Dilemma
as Himself
MOVIE1968
Huge Pupils
as Himself
MOVIE2022