Ken Jacobs
- Nacimiento
- 25 de mayo de 1933 · Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Fallecimiento
- 5 de octubre de 2025
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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.
Filmografía · 26 créditos
Art Spiegelman: El desastre es mi musaComo sí mismo (Self - Filmmaker)
XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSXDirector(a)
The Sky Socialist: Environs and OuttakesDirector(a)
Ulysses in the SubwayDirector(a)
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy ManComo sí mismo (Self)
Blankets for IndiansDirector(a)
Momma's ManActor (Dad)
Return to the Scene of the CrimeEditor(a) · Productor(a) · Guionista · Director(a)
Razzle DazzleDirector(a)
New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903Editor(a) · Director(a) · Guionista · Productor(a)
Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy; Bye, Molly!Editor(a) · Director(a) · Productor(a) · Director(a) de fotografía
Two Wrenching DeparturesProductor(a) · Director(a)
Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging NoiseEditor(a) · Director(a)
Star Spangled to DeathEditor(a) · Director(a) de fotografía · Guionista · Director(a) · Actor (Janitor) · Actor (Ringmaster) · Actor (Oscar Friendly)
En el camino, de cuando en cuando, vislumbré breves momentos de bellezaActor (Self)
Lost, Lost, LostComo sí mismo (Self)
Urban PeasantsEditor(a) · Director(a)
Reminiscences of a Journey to LithuaniaComo sí mismo (Self)
Tom, Tom, the Piper's SonEditor(a) · Productor(a) · Director(a) · Director(a) de fotografía
The Sky SocialistDirector(a)
Otros créditos · 6
Proyectos sin póster todavía (próximos o muy pequeños).
- 2019You Say You Want a Revolution · Actor
- 2014The Guests · Director(a) · Editor(a) · Productor(a)
- 2013A Primer in Sky Socialism · Director(a)
- 2008Razzle-Dazzle: The Lost World · Guionista · Como sí mismo (Self) · Director(a) · Productor(a) · Editor(a)
- 1998Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy · Director(a) · Editor(a)
- 1957The Alps and the Jews · Director(a)