Ken Jacobs
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday25 May 1933
Died5 October 2025 (age 92)
Place of birthWilliamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Known credits313
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. Althou…
Downtown Loft with Skylights
2026 · Director
A Date with Shirley
2026 · Director
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 43
2026 · Director
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 41
2026 · Director
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 42
2026 · Director
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 40
2025 · Director
Book of Eternalisms 39
2025 · Director
Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse
2025 · Self
BMT
2025 · Director
Riverbed
2024 · Director
Tourists of the Familiar 70
2024 · Director
Ken Jacobs - from Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern Art
2023 · Self
Book of Eternalisms 8
2023 · Director
Book of Eternalisms 7
2023 · Director
For James Otis
2023 · Director
Art-House America: Austin Film Society
2023 · Self
Up the Illusion
2023
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2023 · Director
Up the Illusion
2023 · Director
Writhing City
2023 · Director
From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
2023 · Director
Other Urban Lives
2023 · Director
Book of Eternalisms 1-6
2023 · Director
Spasm
2023 · Director
Whims of Twenty Twenty-Three
2023 · Director
Tourists of the Familiar 1
2023 · Director
Tourists of the Familiar 5
2023 · Director
Tourists of the Familiar 10
2023 · Director
Tourists of the Familiar 15
2023 · Director
Tourists of the Familiar 20
2023 · Director
Manhattan is an Island
2023 · Director
Hobgoblin Ball
2023 · Director
Real Action Figures
2022 · Director
When Timofeev Moves Everything Moves
2022 · Director
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
2022
Fragments of Paradise
2022 · Self
Sergei Eisenstein Embossed
2022 · Director
Buster Keaton Embossed
2022 · Director
One Dozen Roses
2022 · Director
America Lets Her Hair Down 1905
2022 · Director
Eat the Rich: Aligning Perspectives and Other Challenges to Viewers
2022 · Director
Eternal Beach
2021 · Director
Abstract Eternalism
2021 · Director
Double Wow
2021 · Director
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2021 · Editor
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2021 · Director
Cartoonish 1-10
2021 · Director
A Small Misunderstanding
2021 · Director
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