Ken Jacobs
Directing
37
Acting Credits
276
Directed
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 Ginsb...
Known For
365 Day Project
Self
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Self
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Self
Art-House America: Austin Film Society
Self
Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse
Self
Jonas in the Desert
Self
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Self
Filmography
Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse
2025
as Self
Art-House America: Austin Film Society
2023
as Self
Ken Jacobs - from Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern Art
2023
as Self
Up the Illusion
2023
Fragments of Paradise
2022
as Self
Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
2022
Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
2016
What Is Cinema?
2013
as Self
The Eternal Courtship
2013
Emma's Dilemma
2012
as Himself
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011
as Himself
Sleepless Nights Stories
2011
as Self
Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
2011
as Himself
Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
2011
Lavender
2010
as Self
Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta?
2010
as Himself
Momma's Man
2008
as Dad
365 Day Project
2007
as Self
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007
as Self
Star Spangled to Death
2004
as Oscar Friendly / Ringmaster / Janitor
Nervous Ken
2003
Shorts From the Underground
2002
as Self
Flo and Ken Jacobs
2001
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
as Self
Birth of a Nation
1997
as Self
Jonas in the Desert
1994
as Self
Quartet Number One
1991
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986
as Self (archive footage)
Home Movies 1971-81
1985
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976
as Self
Horizons
1973
Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
1973
Huge Pupils
1968
as Himself
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
as Self
Bill's Hat
1967
Scotch Tape
1963
Blonde Cobra
1963