Ken Jacobs
Birthday
1933/05/25 (91 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Also know as
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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...Read more
Acting
(1962) Scotch Tape
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(2008) Momma's Man
as Dad
(2011) Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
as Himself
(2010) Lavender
as Self
(1985) Home Movies 1971-81
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(2011) Sleepless Nights Stories
as Self
(2022) Fragments of Paradise
as Self
(2022) Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
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(1968) Huge Pupils
as Himself
(1963) Blonde Cobra
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(2002) Shorts From the Underground
as himself
(2007) 365 Day Project
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(2000) As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
as Self
(1986) He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
as Self (archive footage)
(2007) Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
as Self
(1997) Birth of a Nation
as Self
(1967) Bill's Hat
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(2013) What Is Cinema?
as Self
(2004) Star Spangled to Death
as Oscar Friendly / Ringmaster / Janitor
(1994) Jonas in the Desert
as Self
(2012) Emma's Dilemma
as Himself
(2013) Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self
(1976) Lost, Lost, Lost
as Self
(1991) Quartet Number One
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(2011) Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
as Himself
(2010) Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta?
as Himself
(2016) Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
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