Ken Jacobs
Dirección·25 de mayo de 1933·† 5 de octubre de 2025 — 92 años·Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA
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.
Conocido por
En el camino, de cuando en cuando, vislumbré breves momentos de belleza
2000·7.7
Blonde Cobra
1963·3.0
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968·7.2
What Is Cinema?
2013·6.5
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976·7.1
Scotch Tape
1962·4.4
Little Stabs at Happiness
1963·5.8
Capitalism: Slavery
2007·4.9
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
1969·6.2
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011·6.8
Correspondencia Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
2011·7.0
Momma's Man
2008·6.2
Filmografía · 313
—Sky DiveDirector—Depth for One Eye or TwoDirector—Spotted FeverDirector2026Downtown Loft with SkylightsDirector2026A Date with ShirleyDirector2026BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 43Director2026BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 41Director2026BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 42Director2025BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 40Director2025Book of Eternalisms 39Director2025Art Spiegelman: El desastre es mi musaSelf2025BMTDirector2024RiverbedDirector2024Tourists of the Familiar 70Director2023Ken Jacobs - from Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern ArtSelf2023Book of Eternalisms 8Director2023Book of Eternalisms 7Director2023For James OtisDirector2023Art-House America: Austin Film SocietySelf2023Up the IllusionDirector2023Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeDirector2023Writhing CityDirector2023From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at MidnightDirector2023Other Urban LivesDirector2023Book of Eternalisms 1-6Director2023SpasmDirector2023Whims of Twenty Twenty-ThreeDirector2023Tourists of the Familiar 1Director2023Tourists of the Familiar 5Director2023Tourists of the Familiar 10Director2023Tourists of the Familiar 15Director2023Tourists of the Familiar 20Director2023Manhattan is an IslandDirector2023Hobgoblin BallDirector2022Real Action FiguresDirector2022When Timofeev Moves Everything MovesDirector2022Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages2022Jonas Mekas: Fragmentos del ParaisoSelf2022Sergei Eisenstein EmbossedDirector2022Buster Keaton EmbossedDirector2022One Dozen RosesDirector2022America Lets Her Hair Down 1905Director2022Eat the Rich: Aligning Perspectives and Other Challenges to ViewersDirector2021Eternal BeachDirector2021Abstract EternalismDirector2021Double WowDirector2021XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSXEditor · Director2021Cartoonish 1-10Director2021A Small MisunderstandingDirector2021Adventures of Cookie TruckDirector2021Hoffman StudentDirector2021Aspiring To MusicDirector2021In Front of AnthologyDirector2020Movie That Invites PausingDirector2020StorefrontDirector2020Transparent ApartmentsDirector2020SpikyDirector2020Municipal Building PassageDirector2020Clouds and TreesDirector2020BanditDirector2020Hubble IIDirector2020WhirlpoolDirector2020Halley’s CometDirector2020Water BalloonDirector2020SpaceworksDirector2020Another Day in Days of YoreDirector2020Garage WallDirector2020Period PieceDirector2020Street Commerce IIDirector2020Street CommerceDirector2020Resting MerchantDirector2020Broadway Buildings IIDirector2020Broadway Buildings IIIDirector2020Neon SignDirector2020Flowers and BikeDirector2020Brick Building with Red and Green WindowsDirector2020Broadway BuildingDirector2020Fire EscapeDirector2020DuckDirector2020Chinese New YearsDirector2020Chinese New Years IIDirector2020Doyer StreetDirector2020Sleeping AmericanDirector2020DeKooning PassedDirector2020Waiting Room WindowDirector2020Natural CollageDirector2020Reading SocietyDirector2020Roots of ManhattanDirector2020Lazy CityDirector2020BisonDirector2020Friendly BuildingDirector2020Working Girls (short)Director2020BargainsDirector2020City FoliageDirector2020BarberDirector2020Foliage in Moving Car WindowDirector2020Facade with FaceDirector2020RECIPROCALDirector2020Red GreenDirector2020Ken and FloDirector2020Rain CloudsDirector2020PAINTED POSTERDirector2020DR. TOOTHYDirector2020RubbleDirector2019CRUSHDirector2019PAPPY SEES 3D, TOODirector2019FailureDirector2019Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the PartyDirector2019Things to ComeDirector2019MOVING ROADDirector2019Figures I - VDirector2019THE WHOLE SHEBANGDirector2019ABSTRACTDirector2019Chaos Is Order MisunderstoodDirector2019Above the RainDirector2019The Sky Socialist: The EnvironsDirector2019Joan Mitchell: DeparturesDirector2019Once Upon a PlanetDirector2019Details of Pollock's White LightDirector2019CartoonDirector2019Nervous Magic Lantern: 3D for One or Two Naked EyesDirector2019Dimsum and DragonsDirector2018The Moments: Evening Boat RideDirector2018Tree StumpDirector2017Swee’pea’s Favorite EternalismsDirector2017Shelley Duvall is Olive OylDirector2017Get Up and GoDirector2017A Spin Through Night CityDirector2017Along the ElevatedDirector2017Beautiful DreamerDirector2017Ulysses in the SubwayDirector2017WindbreakerDirector2017Capitalism Defeats Life on Earth, Cab in RainDirector2016Central ParkDirector2016Snow in Headlights IIDirector2016Reichstag 9/11Director2016BMT Canal StreetDirector2016Mosco Street 3: Attack of The Perfect Camera (Fuji W3)Director2016Mosco Street 2Director2016LurkingDirector2016Molten LandscapeDirector2016Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas2016Ken Jacobs / Victoria Keddie @ The Nervous Magic Lantern FestivalDirector2016Ken Jacobs / Tom Chiu of Flux Quartet @ The Nervous Magic Lantern FestivalDirector2016Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern FestivalDirector2016Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern FestivalDirector2016Ken Jacobs / Robert Poss @The Nervous Magic Lantern FestivalDirector2016Ken Jacobs / diNMachine @ The Nervous Magic Lantern FestivalDirector2016Ken Jacobs / JG Thirlwell @ The Nervous Magic Lantern FestivalDirector2016I'm Telling YouDirector2016Hydroelectric DamDirector2015Empty SeatsDirector2015Batchellor’s Dog and BeachDirector2015Afternoon TideDirector2015Zazie Learns About MoneyDirector2015Aimless Sightseeing, SeoulDirector2015ChrysalisDirector2015Cyclops Observes the Celestial BodiesDirector · Writer2015The Lackadaisical Speed of LightDirector2015GranularDirector2015FloralDirector2014Wire FenceDirector2014CanopyDirector2014Celestial BodiesDirector2014Pygmalion CubedDirector2014The GuestsDirector2014Popeye Sees 3-DDirector2013What Is Cinema?Self2013The Eternal Courtship2013A Primer in Sky SocialismDirector2013Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #2Director · Technical Supervisor2013Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #1Director2013Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #3Director2013Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #4Director2012Emma's DilemmaHimself2012Blankets for IndiansDirector2012Street VendorDirector201220 Little FilmsDirector201160 Sekundit Üksindust Aastal NullDirector2011Sleepless Nights StoriesSelf2011OCCUPY WALL STREET, THE 99% JOIN INDirector2011Seeking the Monkey KingDirector2011Free Radicals: A History of Experimental FilmHimself2011The Pushcarts Leave Eternity StreetDirector · Writer2011America at War, The Home Front: Film OpeningDirector2011Revolving DoorDirector2011Turbulent WatersDirector2011Correspondencia Jonas Mekas - J.L. GuerinHimself2011The RosesDirector2011The Green WaveDirector2011Another OccupationDirector · Writer2011Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful WomanDirector2011DAY AND NIGHTDirector2010A LoftEditor · Director2010Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta?Himself2010Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New EntrancewayDirector2010Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy TwoDirector2010The Near-CollisionDirector2010Fair And White: Parts I, II, III and ExtraDirector2010LavenderSelf2009Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome DaysDirector2009Excerpt From THE SKY SOCIALIST StratifiedDirector2009WalkwayDirector2009BrookDirector2009Bob Fleischner DyingDirector2009Brain OperationsDirector2009"Slow is Beauty"-RodinDirector2009Berkeley To San FranciscoDirector2009What Happened on 23rd Street in 1901Director2009Hot Dogs At The MetDirector2009Ronald Gonzales, SculptorDirector2009Gravity Is TopsDirector2009The Day Was a ScorcherDirector · Writer2009The SigningDirector2008Return to the Scene of the CrimeDirector2008Elbow DanceDirector2008Amorous Interludes: His Favorite Wife Improved (or The Virtue Of Bad Reception)Director2008Alone at LastDirector2008The DiscoveryDirector2008The Scenic RouteDirector2008Love StoryDirector2008Anaglyph Tom (Tom with Puffy Cheeks)Director2008Momma's ManDad2007365 Day ProjectSelf2007Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The WorldDirector2007Hanky Panky January 1902Director2007NymphDirector2007We Are CharmingDirector2007Popeye Sees 3-D, TOODirector2007Mosco Street RaptureDirector2007TitlesDirector2007Capitalism: SlaveryDirector2007Razzle Dazzle: The Lost WorldDirector2007Nervous Lantern at Kill Your Timid Notion FestivalDirector2007Jack Smith and the Destruction of AtlantisSelf2007New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903Director · Producer2007Capitalism: Child LaborDirector2006Monks of CinemaCamera Operator2006Pushcarts of Eternity StreetDirector2006The Surging Sea of HumanityDirector2006Two Wrenching DeparturesDirector2005Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging NoiseDirector · Editor · Producer2005Insistent ClamorDirector2005Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 1888Director2005Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye MollyDirector2005Let There Be Whistle BlowersDirector2005Krypton Is DoomedDirector2005Spiral NebulaDirector · Writer2004Mountaineer SpinningDirector2004Star Spangled to DeathOscar Friendly / Ringmaster / Janitor · Director · Writer · Cinematography · Editor2003Nervous Ken2003Keeping an Eye on StanDirector2003The WhirledDirector2002Shorts From the UndergroundSelf2002Circling Zero: Part One, We See AbsenceDirector2002A Tom Tom ChaserDirector2002The Sky Socialist: FlightDirector2001Flo und Ken Jacobs2000En el camino, de cuando en cuando, vislumbré breves momentos de bellezaSelf1999New York Street Trolleys 1900Director1999Flo Rounds a CornerDirector1997Birth of a NationSelf1996Disorient ExpressDirector1996The Georgetown LoopDirector1995Looting For RodneyDirector1995Make Light On FilmDirector1994Bitemporal Vision: The SeaDirector1994Jonas in the DesertSelf1991Quartet Number One1991Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896Director · Writer1991Keaton's CopsDirector · Writer1990ChronometerDirector1986The Alps and The JewsDirector1986He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His LifeSelf (archive footage)1985Perfect FilmDirector1985Home Movies 1971-811977The Doctor's DreamDirector1977Book of Splendors, Part Two, Book of Levers: Action at a DistanceDirector1976Lost, Lost, LostSelf1976Spaghetti AzaDirector1975Urban PeasantsDirector1975Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The PictureDirector1973Horizons1973Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”1973Changing AzazelDirector1970Binghamton, My IndiaDirector1969Nissan Ariana WindowDirector1969Tom, Tom, the Piper's SonDirector1969GlobeDirector1968Huge PupilsHimself1968Diaries, Notes, and SketchesSelf1968Soft RainDirector1967For Life, Against the WarDirector1967Bill's Hat1967AirshaftDirector1966The Sky SocialistDirector1965Lisa and Joey in ConnecticutDirector1965Naomi Is A Dream of LovelinessDirector19641st WindowDirector1964WindowDirector · Editor · Cinematography · Producer1964We Stole AwayDirector1964The Winter FootageDirector1964Winter SkyDirector1964Artie and Marty Rosenblatt’s Baby PicturesDirector1963Little Stabs at HappinessDirector1963TV PlugDirector1963Blonde CobraDirector1962Scotch Tape1962Baud'larian CapersDirector1961The Death of P'townDirector1956Saturday Afternoon Blood SacrificeDirector1956Little Cobra DanceDirector1955Orchard StreetDirector