Ulysses Jenkins
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday19 September 1946
Died23 February 2026 (age 79)
Place of birthLos Angeles, California, USA
Known credits19
Biography
Ulysses Jenkins was born in 1946, in Los Angeles, California. He studied painting and drawing as an undergraduate at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and later received an MFA in intermedia-video and performance art from Otis Art Institute (now known as Otis College of Art and Design). Prior to enrolling at Otis, from 1970-72 Jenkins worked with the Los Angeles County Probation Department, teaching art to nondelinquent youth, and in 1989, taught video through a gang-intervention program in Oakland. Jenkins is the recipient of numerous awards, including individual artist fellowshi…
In The Midnight Hour
2010 · Director
Notions of Freedom
2007
Notions of Freedom
2007 · Director
Planet X
2006 · Director
Vulnerable
2000 · Director
Secrecy: Help Me to Understand
1994 · Director
The Nomadics
1991 · Director
Mutual Native Duplex
1990 · Director
Self Divination
1989 · Director
Voices
1985 · Self
Peace and Anwar Sadat
1985 · Director
Without Your Interpretation
1983 · Director
Cake Walk
1983 · Director
Dream City
1983
Z-Grass
1983 · Director
Dream City
1983 · Director
Dream City
1983 · Camera Operator
Dream City
1983 · Writer
Dream City
1983 · Producer
Dream City
1983 · Editor
Inconsequential Doggereal
1981 · Director
Remnants of the Watts Festival
1980 · Director
Two-Zone Transfer
1979 · Director
Mass of Images
1978
King David
1978 · Director
Mass of Images
1978 · Director
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