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Ken Jacobs‌

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calendar1933-05-25

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Ken Jacobs

Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Ken Jacobs

Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1933-05-25

Popularity

star1.9

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.

Movie Credits

Scotch Tape

Scotch Tape‌
star4.2
calendar 1962

Momma's Man

Momma's Man‌
star6.2
calendar 2008

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film‌
star6.7
calendar 2011

Lavender

Lavender‌
star0.0
calendar 2010

Home Movies 1971-81

Home Movies 1971-81‌
star0.0
calendar 1985

Sleepless Nights Stories

Sleepless Nights Stories‌
star5.7
calendar 2011

Fragments of Paradise

Fragments of Paradise‌
star6.7
calendar 2022

Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages

Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages‌
star0.0
calendar 2022

Huge Pupils

Huge Pupils‌
star0.0
calendar 1968

Blonde Cobra

Blonde Cobra‌
star2.9
calendar 1963

Shorts From the Underground

Shorts From the Underground‌
star0.0
calendar 2002

365 Day Project

365 Day Project‌
star0.0
calendar 2007

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty‌
star7.8
calendar 2000

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life‌
star8.0
calendar 1986

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis‌
star6.6
calendar 2007

Birth of a Nation

Birth of a Nation‌
star6.3
calendar 1997

Bill's Hat

Bill's Hat‌
star0.0
calendar 1967

What Is Cinema?

What Is Cinema?‌
star6.2
calendar 2013

Star Spangled to Death

Star Spangled to Death‌
star7.5
calendar 2004

Jonas in the Desert

Jonas in the Desert‌
star5.5
calendar 1994

Emma's Dilemma

Emma's Dilemma‌
star1.0
calendar 2012

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches‌
star7.4
calendar 1968

Lost, Lost, Lost

Lost, Lost, Lost‌
star6.9
calendar 1976

Quartet Number One

Quartet Number One‌
star7.5
calendar 1991

Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin

Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin‌
star6.1
calendar 2011

Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta?

Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta?‌
star5.0
calendar 2010

Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas

Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas‌
star0.0
calendar 2016

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