1933-05-25 ( 91 years old ) in 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 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.
Movies
Fragments of Paradise
2022-08-31
Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
2016-05-29
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
2013-11-23
What Is Cinema?
2013-09-06
Emma's Dilemma
2012-06-18
Sleepless Nights Stories
2011-12-15
Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta?
2010-10-03
Lavender
2010-06-01
Momma's Man
2008-01-18
365 Day Project
2007-12-31
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007-04-11
Star Spangled to Death
2004-05-21
Shorts From the Underground
2002-09-08
Birth of a Nation
1997-08-06
Jonas in the Desert
1994-01-01
Quartet Number One
1991-07-03
Home Movies 1971-81
1985-01-01
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976-09-14
Huge Pupils
1968-05-28
Bill's Hat
1967-01-01
Blonde Cobra
1963-04-08
Scotch Tape
1962-01-01
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