Ken Jacobs

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1933-05-25 (92 years old)

Place of Birth

Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Ken Jacobs

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, ...

Production

2010

A Loft

as Editor

1963

Blonde Cobra

as Director

2004

2021

Double Wow

as Director

1985

Perfect Film

as Director

1975

Urban Peasants

as Director

2005

2013

2021

1955

Orchard Street

as Director

2007

2019

Cartoon

as Director

2021

Cartoonish 1-10

as Director

2021

2014

Canopy

as Director

2023

Spasm

as Director

1996

2022

2002

A Tom Tom Chaser

as Director

2005

2021

Hoffman Student

as Director

2022

One Dozen Roses

as Director

2023

Up the Illusion

as Director

2019

2014

The Guests

as Director

2015

Chrysalis

as Director

2011

DAY AND NIGHT

as Director

2021

Eternal Beach

as Director

1968

Soft Rain

as Director

2014

Wire Fence

as Director

1999

1964

Window

as Director

1964

Window

as Editor

1964

Window

as Cinematography

1964

Window

as Producer

2010

A Loft

as Director

1996

2004

1977

1976

Spaghetti Aza

as Director

1969

1967

Airshaft

as Director

2021

1991

Keaton's Cops

as Director

1991

Keaton's Cops

as Writer

2005

Spiral Nebula

as Director

2005

Spiral Nebula

as Writer

2009

2011

2011

2011

The Green Wave

as Director

2009

The Signing

as Director

1956

1963

1962

2012

2016

Reichstag 9/11

as Director

2012

20 Little Films

as Director

2017

Windbreaker

as Director

2014

Popeye Sees 3-D

as Director

2017

1969

Globe

as Director

1995

1968

2008

The Scenic Route

as Director

2008

Elbow Dance

as Director

2010

2007

Nymph

as Director

2008

Alone at Last

as Director

2008

The Discovery

as Director

2007

We Are Charming

as Director

2023

1961

The Whirled

as Director

2017

Get Up and Go

as Director

2017

2022

2021

2012

Street Vendor

as Director

2011

The Roses

as Director

2023

Writhing City

as Director

2015

Afternoon Tide

as Director

2016

Mosco Street 2

as Director

2015

Empty Seats

as Director

2016

I'm Telling You

as Director

2016

2019

2019

Above the Rain

as Director

2004

Star Spangled to Death

as Cinematography

2019

2006

Monks of Cinema

as Camera Operator

2019

Things to Come

as Director

1990

Chronometer

as Director

1963

TV Plug

as Director

1964

1964

We Stole Away

as Director

1964

Winter Sky

as Director

1970

1973

Changing Azazel

as Director

2020

Rubble

as Director

1986

1995

2003

2005

Insistent Clamor

as Director

2008

Love Story

as Director

2009

2009

Brain Operations

as Director

2009

Brook

as Director

2009

2009

Gravity Is Tops

as Director

2009

Walkway

as Director

2011

Revolving Door

as Director

2016

Lurking

as Director

2016

Molten Landscape

as Director

2014

Celestial Bodies

as Director

2007

2007

2014

Pygmalion Cubed

as Director

2007

Titles

as Director

1964

1st Window

as Director

2019

Failure

as Director

2020

Rain Clouds

as Director

2020

RECIPROCAL

as Director

2020

Red Green

as Director

2019

CRUSH

as Director

2020

Ken and Flo

as Director

2020

PAINTED POSTER

as Director

2020

DR. TOOTHY

as Director

2020

Barber

as Director

2020

Facade with Face

as Director

2020

Doyer Street

as Director

2020

2020

DeKooning Passed

as Director

2020

2020

Natural Collage

as Director

2020

Reading Society

as Director

2020

2020

Lazy City

as Director

2020

Bison

as Director

2020

2020

2020

2020

Bargains

as Director

2020

City Foliage

as Director

2020

2020

2020

Fire Escape

as Director

2020

Duck

as Director

2019

Figures I - V

as Director

2020

2020

2020

Street Commerce

as Director

2020

Resting Merchant

as Director

2020

Neon Sign

as Director

2020

Flowers and Bike

as Director

2020

2020

Halley’s Comet

as Director

2020

Water Balloon

as Director

2020

Spaceworks

as Director

2020

Period Piece

as Director

2020

Bandit

as Director

2020

Garage Wall

as Director

2020

Hubble II

as Director

2020

Whirlpool

as Director

2020

Storefront

as Director

2020

2020

Spiky

as Director

2020

Clouds and Trees

as Director

2019

2019

MOVING ROAD

as Director

2011

Turbulent Waters

as Director

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