About 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…
Filmography36 films
Rank Ken Jacobs's movies
Start with all movie credits in Favorite Ken Jacobs Movies, then arrange them in your own order.
- Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse2025
- Ken Jacobs - from Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern Art2023
- Art-House America: Austin Film Society2023
- Up the Illusion2023
- Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages2022
- Fragments of Paradise2022
- Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas2016
- What Is Cinema?2013
- The Eternal Courtship2013
- Emma's Dilemma2012
- Sleepless Nights Stories2011
- Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film2011
- Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin2011
- Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman2011
- Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta?2010
- Lavender2010
- Momma's Man2008
- 365 Day Project2007
- Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis2007
- Star Spangled to Death2004
- Nervous Ken2003
- Flo and Ken Jacobs2001
- As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty2000
- Birth of a Nation1997
- Jonas in the Desert1994
- Quartet Number One1991
- He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life1986
- Home Movies 1971-811985
- Lost, Lost, Lost1976
- Horizons1973
- Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”1973
- Huge Pupils1968
- Diaries, Notes, and Sketches1968
- Bill's Hat1967
- Blonde Cobra1963
- Scotch Tape1963
