Ken Jacobs

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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.

Filmography

• Downtown Loft with Skylights (2026)
• 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)
• Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse (2025)
• BMT (2025)
• Riverbed (2024)
• Tourists of the Familiar 70 (2024)
• Ken Jacobs - from Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern Art (2023)
• Book of Eternalisms 8 (2023)
• Book of Eternalisms 7 (2023)
• For James Otis (2023)
• Art-House America: Austin Film Society (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 15 (2023)
• Tourists of the Familiar 1 (2023)
• Tourists of the Familiar 5 (2023)
• Tourists of the Familiar 20 (2023)
• Tourists of the Familiar 10 (2023)
• Manhattan is an Island (2023)
• Hobgoblin Ball (2023)
• Real Action Figures (2022)
• When Timofeev Moves Everything Moves (2022)
• Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages (2022)
• Fragments of Paradise (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 (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 (2021)
• Movie That Invites Pausing (2020)
• Storefront (2020)
• Spiky (2020)
• Transparent Apartments (2020)
• Municipal Building Passage (2020)
• Clouds and Trees (2020)
• Bandit (2020)
• Hubble II (2020)
• Whirlpool (2020)
• Water Balloon (2020)
• Halley’s Comet (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 (2020)
• Chinese New Years II (2020)
• Broadway Building (2020)
• Duck (2020)
• Fire Escape (2020)
• Brick Building with Red and Green Windows (2020)
• DeKooning Passed (2020)
• Doyer Street (2020)
• Sleeping American (2020)
• Waiting Room Window (2020)
• Natural Collage (2020)
• Reading Society (2020)
• Lazy City (2020)
• Roots of Manhattan (2020)
• Friendly Building (2020)
• Bison (2020)
• Working Girls (short) (2020)
• Bargains (2020)
• City Foliage (2020)
• Barber (2020)
• Foliage in Moving Car Window (2020)
• Facade with Face (2020)
• RECIPROCAL (2020)
• Ken and Flo (2020)
• Red Green (2020)
• Rain Clouds (2020)
• PAINTED POSTER (2020)
• DR. TOOTHY (2020)
• Rubble (2020)
• CRUSH (2019)
• PAPPY SEES 3D, TOO (2019)
• Failure (2019)
• Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party (2019)
• Things to Come (2019)
• MOVING ROAD (2019)
• Figures I - V (2019)
• THE WHOLE SHEBANG (2019)
• ABSTRACT (2019)
• Chaos Is Order Misunderstood (2019)
• Above the Rain (2019)
• The Sky Socialist: The Environs (2019)
• Joan Mitchell: Departures (2019)
• Once Upon a Planet (2019)
• Details of Pollock's White Light (2019)
• Cartoon (2019)
• Nervous Magic Lantern: 3D for One or Two Naked Eyes (2019)
• Dimsum and Dragons (2019)
• The Moments: Evening Boat Ride (2018)
• Tree Stump (2018)
• Swee’pea’s Favorite Eternalisms (2017)
• Get Up and Go (2017)
• A Spin Through Night City (2017)
• Along the Elevated (2017)
• Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl (2017)
• Beautiful Dreamer (2017)
• Ulysses in the Subway (2017)
• Windbreaker (2017)
• Capitalism Defeats Life on Earth, Cab in Rain (2017)
• Central Park (2016)
• Snow in Headlights II (2016)
• Reichstag 9/11 (2016)
• BMT Canal Street (2016)
• Mosco Street 2 (2016)
• Mosco Street 3: Attack of The Perfect Camera (Fuji W3) (2016)
• Molten Landscape (2016)
• Lurking (2016)
• Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas (2016)
• Ken Jacobs / Victoria Keddie @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival (2016)
• Ken Jacobs / Tom Chiu of Flux Quartet @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival (2016)
• Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival (2016)
• Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival (2016)
• Ken Jacobs / Robert Poss @The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival (2016)
• Ken Jacobs / diNMachine @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival (2016)
• Ken Jacobs / JG Thirlwell @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival (2016)
• I'm Telling You (2016)
• Hydroelectric Dam (2016)
• Empty Seats (2015)
• Batchellor’s Dog and Beach (2015)
• Afternoon Tide (2015)
• Zazie Learns About Money (2015)
• Aimless Sightseeing, Seoul (2015)
• Chrysalis (2015)
• Cyclops Observes the Celestial Bodies (2015)
• The Lackadaisical Speed of Light (2015)
• Granular (2015)
• Floral (2015)
• Wire Fence (2014)
• Canopy (2014)
• Pygmalion Cubed (2014)
• Celestial Bodies (2014)
• The Guests (2014)
• Popeye Sees 3-D (2014)
• A Primer in Sky Socialism (2013)
• What Is Cinema? (2013)
• The Eternal Courtship (2013)
• Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #2 (2013)
• Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #1 (2013)
• Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #4 (2013)
• Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #3 (2013)
• Emma's Dilemma (2012)
• Blankets for Indians (2012)
• Street Vendor (2012)
• 20 Little Films (2012)
• 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011)
• Sleepless Nights Stories (2011)
• OCCUPY WALL STREET, THE 99% JOIN IN (2011)
• Seeking the Monkey King (2011)
• Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011)
• The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street (2011)
• America at War, The Home Front: Film Opening (2011)
• Revolving Door (2011)
• Turbulent Waters (2011)
• Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin (2011)
• The Roses (2011)
• The Green Wave (2011)
• Another Occupation (2011)
• Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman (2011)
• DAY AND NIGHT (2011)
• A Loft (2010)
• Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta? (2010)
• Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway (2010)
• The Near-Collision (2010)
• Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two (2010)
• Fair And White: Parts I, II, III and Extra (2010)
• Lavender (2010)
• Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days (2009)
• Walkway (2009)
• Excerpt From THE SKY SOCIALIST Stratified (2009)
• Brook (2009)
• Bob Fleischner Dying (2009)
• Brain Operations (2009)
• "Slow is Beauty"-Rodin (2009)
• Berkeley To San Francisco (2009)
• What Happened on 23rd Street in 1901 (2009)
• Hot Dogs At The Met (2009)
• Ronald Gonzales, Sculptor (2009)
• Gravity Is Tops (2009)
• The Day Was a Scorcher (2009)
• The Signing (2009)
• Return to the Scene of the Crime (2008)
• Elbow Dance (2008)
• The Discovery (2008)
• Amorous Interludes: His Favorite Wife Improved (or The Virtue Of Bad Reception) (2008)
• Alone at Last (2008)
• The Scenic Route (2008)
• Love Story (2008)
• Anaglyph Tom (Tom with Puffy Cheeks) (2008)
• Momma's Man (2008)
• 365 Day Project (2007)
• Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World (2007)
• Nymph (2007)
• Hanky Panky January 1902 (2007)
• We Are Charming (2007)
• Titles (2007)
• Mosco Street Rapture (2007)
• Popeye Sees 3-D, TOO (2007)
• Capitalism: Slavery (2007)
• Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World (2007)
• Nervous Lantern at Kill Your Timid Notion Festival (2007)
• Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2007)
• New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903 (2007)
• Capitalism: Child Labor (2007)
• Monks of Cinema (2006)
• Pushcarts of Eternity Street (2006)
• The Surging Sea of Humanity (2006)
• Two Wrenching Departures (2006)
• Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise (2005)
• Insistent Clamor (2005)
• Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 1888 (2005)
• Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye Molly (2005)
• Let There Be Whistle Blowers (2005)
• Krypton Is Doomed (2005)
• Spiral Nebula (2005)
• Mountaineer Spinning (2004)
• Star Spangled to Death (2004)
• Nervous Ken (2003)
• Keeping an Eye on Stan (2003)
• The Whirled (2003)
• Shorts From the Underground (2002)
• Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence (2002)
• A Tom Tom Chaser (2002)
• The Sky Socialist: Flight (2002)
• Flo and Ken Jacobs (2001)
• As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
• New York Street Trolleys 1900 (1999)
• Laboratorium Anthology (1999)
• Flo Rounds a Corner (1999)
• Birth of a Nation (1997)
• Disorient Express (1996)
• The Georgetown Loop (1996)
• Looting For Rodney (1995)
• Make Light On Film (1995)
• Bitemporal Vision: The Sea (1994)
• Jonas in the Desert (1994)
• Quartet Number One (1991)
• Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896 (1991)
• Keaton's Cops (1991)
• Chronometer (1990)
• The Alps and The Jews (1986)
• He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986)
• Perfect Film (1985)
• Home Movies 1971-81 (1985)
• The Doctor's Dream (1977)
• Book of Splendors, Part Two, Book of Levers: Action at a Distance (1977)
• Lost, Lost, Lost (1976)
• Spaghetti Aza (1976)
• Urban Peasants (1975)
• Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture (1975)
• Horizons (1973)
• Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema” (1973)
• Changing Azazel (1973)
• Binghamton, My India (1970)
• Nissan Ariana Window (1969)
• Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1969)
• Globe (1969)
• Huge Pupils (1968)
• Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968)
• Soft Rain (1968)
• For Life, Against the War (1967)
• Bill's Hat (1967)
• Airshaft (1967)
• The Sky Socialist (1966)
• Lisa and Joey in Connecticut (1965)
• Naomi Is A Dream of Loveliness (1965)
• 1st Window (1964)
• Window (1964)
• We Stole Away (1964)
• The Winter Footage (1964)
• Winter Sky (1964)
• Artie and Marty Rosenblatt’s Baby Pictures (1964)
• Little Stabs at Happiness (1963)
• TV Plug (1963)
• Blonde Cobra (1963)
• Scotch Tape (1963)
• Baud'larian Capers (1962)
• The Death of P'town (1961)
• Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice (1956)
• Little Cobra Dance (1956)
• Orchard Street (1955)
• Depth for One Eye or Two
• Sky Dive
• Spotted Fever