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Director

Ken Jacobs

Popular films

Blonde Cobra1963
Little Stabs at Happiness1963
Capitalism: Slavery2007
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son1969

About Ken Jacobs

Known for: Directing
Born: May 25, 1933
Died: October 5, 2025 (age 92)
Birthplace: 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…

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Filmography

Downtown Loft with Skylights2026Director

A Date with Shirley2026Director
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 432026Director
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 412026Director
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 422026Director
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 402025Director
Book of Eternalisms 392025Director
BMT2025Director
Riverbed2024Director
Tourists of the Familiar 702024Director
Book of Eternalisms 82023Director
Book of Eternalisms 72023Director
For James Otis2023Director
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde2023Director
Up the Illusion2023Director
Writhing City2023Director
From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight2023Director
Other Urban Lives2023Director
Book of Eternalisms 1-62023Director
Hobgoblin Ball2023Director
Manhattan is an Island2023Director
Spasm2023Director
Tourists of the Familiar 12023Director
Tourists of the Familiar 102023Director
Tourists of the Familiar 152023Director
Tourists of the Familiar 202023Director
Tourists of the Familiar 52023Director
Whims of Twenty Twenty-Three2023Director
Real Action Figures2022Director
When Timofeev Moves Everything Moves2022Director
Sergei Eisenstein Embossed2022Director
Buster Keaton Embossed2022Director
America Lets Her Hair Down 19052022Director
Eat the Rich: Aligning Perspectives and Other Challenges to Viewers2022Director
One Dozen Roses2022Director
Eternal Beach2021Director
Abstract Eternalism2021Director
Double Wow2021Director
XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX2021Director
A Small Misunderstanding2021Director
Adventures of Cookie Truck2021Director
Aspiring To Music2021Director
Cartoonish 1-102021Director
Hoffman Student2021Director
In Front of Anthology2021Director
Movie That Invites Pausing2020Director
Spiky2020Director
Storefront2020Director
Transparent Apartments2020Director
Clouds and Trees2020Director
Municipal Building Passage2020Director
Bandit2020Director
Hubble II2020Director
Whirlpool2020Director
Halley’s Comet2020Director
Spaceworks2020Director
Water Balloon2020Director
Another Day in Days of Yore2020Director
Garage Wall2020Director
Period Piece2020Director
Street Commerce II2020Director
Resting Merchant2020Director
Street Commerce2020Director
Broadway Buildings II2020Director
Broadway Buildings III2020Director
Flowers and Bike2020Director
Neon Sign2020Director
Brick Building with Red and Green Windows2020Director
Broadway Building2020Director
Chinese New Years2020Director
Chinese New Years II2020Director
Duck2020Director
Fire Escape2020Director
Bargains2020Director
Bison2020Director
City Foliage2020Director
DeKooning Passed2020Director
Doyer Street2020Director
Friendly Building2020Director
Lazy City2020Director
Natural Collage2020Director
Reading Society2020Director
Roots of Manhattan2020Director
Sleeping American2020Director
Waiting Room Window2020Director
Working Girls (short)2020Director
Barber2020Director
Facade with Face2020Director
Foliage in Moving Car Window2020Director
RECIPROCAL2020Director
Ken and Flo2020Director
Red Green2020Director
PAINTED POSTER2020Director
Rain Clouds2020Director
DR. TOOTHY2020Director
Rubble2020Director
CRUSH2019Director
PAPPY SEES 3D, TOO2019Director
Failure2019Director
Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party2019Director
MOVING ROAD2019Director
Things to Come2019Director
Figures I - V2019Director
ABSTRACT2019Director
THE WHOLE SHEBANG2019Director
Chaos Is Order Misunderstood2019Director
Above the Rain2019Director
The Sky Socialist: The Environs2019Director
Joan Mitchell: Departures2019Director
Once Upon a Planet2019Director
Details of Pollock's White Light2019Director
Cartoon2019Director
Dimsum and Dragons2019Director
Nervous Magic Lantern: 3D for One or Two Naked Eyes2019Director
The Moments: Evening Boat Ride2018Director
Tree Stump2018Director
Swee’pea’s Favorite Eternalisms2017Director
A Spin Through Night City2017Director
Along the Elevated2017Director
Get Up and Go2017Director
Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl2017Director
Beautiful Dreamer2017Director
Ulysses in the Subway2017Director
Windbreaker2017Director
Capitalism Defeats Life on Earth, Cab in Rain2017Director
Central Park2016Director
Snow in Headlights II2016Director
Reichstag 9/112016Director
BMT Canal Street2016Director
Mosco Street 22016Director
Mosco Street 3: Attack of The Perfect Camera (Fuji W3)2016Director
Lurking2016Director
Molten Landscape2016Director
Ken Jacobs / Tom Chiu of Flux Quartet @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival2016Director
Ken Jacobs / Victoria Keddie @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival2016Director
Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival2016Director
Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival2016Director
Ken Jacobs / Robert Poss @The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival2016Director
Ken Jacobs / diNMachine @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival2016Director
Ken Jacobs / JG Thirlwell @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival2016Director
Hydroelectric Dam2016Director
I'm Telling You2016Director
Empty Seats2015Director
Batchellor’s Dog and Beach2015Director
Afternoon Tide2015Director
Zazie Learns About Money2015Director
Aimless Sightseeing, Seoul2015Director
Chrysalis2015Director
Cyclops Observes the Celestial Bodies2015Director
Floral2015Director
Granular2015Director
The Lackadaisical Speed of Light2015Director
Wire Fence2014Director
Canopy2014Director
Celestial Bodies2014Director
Pygmalion Cubed2014Director
The Guests2014Director
Popeye Sees 3-D2014Director
A Primer in Sky Socialism2013Director
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #12013Director
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #22013Director
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #32013Director
Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #42013Director
Blankets for Indians2012Director
Street Vendor2012Director
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero2011Director
OCCUPY WALL STREET, THE 99% JOIN IN2011Director
Seeking the Monkey King2011Director
The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street2011Director
America at War, The Home Front: Film Opening2011Director
Revolving Door2011Director
Turbulent Waters2011Director
The Roses2011Director
The Green Wave2011Director
Another Occupation2011Director
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman2011Director
A Loft2010Director
Fair And White: Parts I, II, III and Extra2010Director
Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway2010Director
Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two2010Director
The Near-Collision2010Director
Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days2009Director
Excerpt From THE SKY SOCIALIST Stratified2009Director
Walkway2009Director
Brook2009Director
Bob Fleischner Dying2009Director
Brain Operations2009Director
"Slow is Beauty"-Rodin2009Director
Berkeley To San Francisco2009Director
What Happened on 23rd Street in 19012009Director
Hot Dogs At The Met2009Director
Gravity Is Tops2009Director
Ronald Gonzales, Sculptor2009Director
The Day Was a Scorcher2009Director
The Signing2009Director
Return to the Scene of the Crime2008Director
Alone at Last2008Director
Amorous Interludes: His Favorite Wife Improved (or The Virtue Of Bad Reception)2008Director
Elbow Dance2008Director
The Discovery2008Director
The Scenic Route2008Director
Love Story2008Director
Anaglyph Tom (Tom with Puffy Cheeks)2008Director
Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World2007Director
Hanky Panky January 19022007Director
Nymph2007Director
We Are Charming2007Director
Mosco Street Rapture2007Director
Popeye Sees 3-D, TOO2007Director
Titles2007Director
Capitalism: Slavery2007Director
Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World2007Director
Nervous Lantern at Kill Your Timid Notion Festival2007Director
New York Ghetto Fishmarket 19032007Director
Capitalism: Child Labor2007Director
Pushcarts of Eternity Street2006Director
The Surging Sea of Humanity2006Director
Two Wrenching Departures2006Director
Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise2005Director
Insistent Clamor2005Director
Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 18882005Director
Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye Molly2005Director
Krypton Is Doomed2005Director
Let There Be Whistle Blowers2005Director
Spiral Nebula2005Director
Mountaineer Spinning2004Director
Star Spangled to Death2004Director
Keeping an Eye on Stan2003Director
The Whirled2003Director
Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence2002Director
A Tom Tom Chaser2002Director
The Sky Socialist: Flight2002Director
New York Street Trolleys 19001999Director
Flo Rounds a Corner1999Director
Disorient Express1996Director
The Georgetown Loop1996Director
Looting For Rodney1995Director
Make Light On Film1995Director
Bitemporal Vision: The Sea1994Director
Keaton's Cops1991Director
Opening the Nineteenth Century: 18961991Director
Chronometer1990Director
The Alps and The Jews1986Director
Perfect Film1985Director
The Doctor's Dream1977Director
Book of Splendors, Part Two, Book of Levers: Action at a Distance1977Director
Spaghetti Aza1976Director
Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture1975Director
Urban Peasants1975Director
Changing Azazel1973Director
Binghamton, My India1970Director
Nissan Ariana Window1969Director
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son1969Director
Globe1969Director
Soft Rain1968Director
For Life, Against the War1967Director
Airshaft1967Director
The Sky Socialist1966Director
Lisa and Joey in Connecticut1965Director
Naomi Is A Dream of Loveliness1965Director
1st Window1964Director
Window1964Director
We Stole Away1964Director
The Winter Footage1964Director
Winter Sky1964Director
Artie and Marty Rosenblatt’s Baby Pictures1964Director
Little Stabs at Happiness1963Director
TV Plug1963Director
Blonde Cobra1963Director
Baud'larian Capers1962Director
The Death of P'town1961Director
Little Cobra Dance1956Director
Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice1956Director
Orchard Street1955Director
Depth for One Eye or TwoYear unavailableDirector
Sky DiveYear unavailableDirector
Spotted FeverYear unavailableDirector

About Space and Depth2026

Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse2025as Self
Ken Jacobs - from Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern Art2023as Self
Art-House America: Austin Film Society2023as Self
Up the Illusion2023
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages2022
Fragments of Paradise2022as Self
Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas2016
What Is Cinema?2013as Self
The Eternal Courtship2013
Emma's Dilemma2012as Himself
Sleepless Nights Stories2011as Self
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film2011as Himself
Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin2011as Himself
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman2011
Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta?2010as Himself
Lavender2010as Self
Momma's Man2008as Dad
365 Day Project2007as Self
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis2007as Self
Star Spangled to Death2004as Oscar Friendly / Ringmaster / Janitor
Nervous Ken2003
Flo and Ken Jacobs2001
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty2000as Self
Laboratorium Anthology1999
Birth of a Nation1997as Self
Jonas in the Desert1994as Self
Quartet Number One1991
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life1986as Self (archive footage)
Home Movies 1971-811985
Lost, Lost, Lost1976as Self
Horizons1973
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”1973
Huge Pupils1968as Himself
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches1968as Self
Bill's Hat1967
Blonde Cobra1963
Scotch Tape1963

Cyclops Observes the Celestial Bodies2015Writer

The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street2011Writer
Another Occupation2011Writer
The Day Was a Scorcher2009Writer
Spiral Nebula2005Writer
Star Spangled to Death2004Writer
Keaton's Cops1991Writer
Opening the Nineteenth Century: 18961991Writer

New York Ghetto Fishmarket 19032007Producer

Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise2005Producer
Window1964Producer

Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #22013Technical Supervisor

Star Spangled to Death2004Cinematography
Window1964Cinematography

XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX2021Editor

A Loft2010Editor
Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise2005Editor
Star Spangled to Death2004Editor
Window1964Editor