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