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Ken Jacobs

1933 - 2025 (age 92) • 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.

Known For

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

78%

Self

2000

Blonde Cobra

30%
1963

Lost, Lost, Lost

71%

Self

1976

Scotch Tape

44%
1963

Little Stabs at Happiness

58%

Director

1963

Capitalism: Slavery

49%

Director

2007

Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son

62%

Director

1969

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

68%

Himself

2011

Downtown Loft with Skylights

Director

2026

BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 43

Director

2026

BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 42

Director

2026

BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 41

Director

2026

BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 40

Director

2025

Book of Eternalisms 39

Director

2025

Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse

82%

Self

2025

Ken Jacobs - from Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern Art

Self

2023

Art-House America: Austin Film Society

Self

2023

Up the Illusion

2023

Writhing City

Director

2023

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Director

2023

Up the Illusion

Director

2023

Other Urban Lives

Director

2023

From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight

Director

2023

Book of Eternalisms 1-6

Director

2023

Spasm

Director

2023

Whims of Twenty Twenty-Three

Director

2023

Tourists of the Familiar 5

Director

2023

Tourists of the Familiar 1

Director

2023

Tourists of the Familiar 20

Director

2023

Tourists of the Familiar 15

Director

2023

Tourists of the Familiar 10

Director

2023

Real Action Figures

Director

2022

When Timofeev Moves Everything Moves

Director

2022

Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages

2022

Fragments of Paradise

65%

Self

2022

Sergei Eisenstein Embossed

Director

2022

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