Ken Jacobs
Directing
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.…
Filmography
80
Downtown Loft with Skylights
2026
A Date with Shirley
A Date with Shirley
2026
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 43
2026
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 41
2026
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 42
2026
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 40
2025
Book of Eternalisms 39
2025
BMT
BMT
2025
Riverbed
Riverbed
2024
Tourists of the Familiar 70
Tourists of the Familiar 70
2024
Book of Eternalisms 8
2023
Book of Eternalisms 7
2023
For James Otis
For James Otis
2023
Up the Illusion
2023
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2023
Writhing City
2023
Other Urban Lives
2023
From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
2023
Book of Eternalisms 1-6
2023
Spasm
2023
Whims of Twenty Twenty-Three
2023
Tourists of the Familiar 1
2023
Tourists of the Familiar 5
2023
Tourists of the Familiar 10
2023
Tourists of the Familiar 15
2023
Tourists of the Familiar 20
2023
Manhattan is an Island
Manhattan is an Island
2023
Hobgoblin Ball
Hobgoblin Ball
2023
Real Action Figures
2022
When Timofeev Moves Everything Moves
2022
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
2022
Sergei Eisenstein Embossed
2022
Buster Keaton Embossed
2022
One Dozen Roses
2022
America Lets Her Hair Down 1905
2022
Eat the Rich: Aligning Perspectives and Other Challenges to Viewers
Eat the Rich: Aligning Perspectives and Other Challenges to Viewers
2022
Eternal Beach
2021
Abstract Eternalism
2021
Double Wow
2021
XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX
2021
Cartoonish 1-10
2021
A Small Misunderstanding
2021
Adventures of Cookie Truck
2021
Hoffman Student
2021
Aspiring To Music
2021
In Front of Anthology
In Front of Anthology
2021
Movie That Invites Pausing
2020
Transparent Apartments
2020
Spiky
2020
Storefront
2020
Municipal Building Passage
2020
Clouds and Trees
2020
Bandit
Bandit
2020
Whirlpool
2020
Hubble II
2020
Halley’s Comet
2020
Water Balloon
2020
Spaceworks
2020
Another Day in Days of Yore
2020
Garage Wall
2020
Period Piece
2020
Street Commerce II
2020
Street Commerce
2020
Resting Merchant
2020
Broadway Buildings II
2020
Broadway Buildings III
2020
Neon Sign
2020
Flowers and Bike
2020
Chinese New Years II
2020
Chinese New Years
2020
Brick Building with Red and Green Windows
2020
Fire Escape
2020
Broadway Building
2020
Duck
2020
Doyer Street
2020
DeKooning Passed
2020
Sleeping American
2020
Roots of Manhattan
2020
Reading Society
2020
Lazy City
2020