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Ken Jacobs

Ken Jacobs

Birthday: 1933-05-25 | Place of Birth: Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA

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.

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Known For

What Is Cinema?
What Is Cinema?

What Is Cinema?   2013

Release Date: 
2013

Rating: 6.1

genres: 
Documentary
Stars: 
Chantal Akerman  /  Robert Altman  /  David Lynch
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film   2011

Release Date: 
2011

Rating: 6.9

genres: 
Documentary
Stars: 
Stan Brakhage  /  Robert Breer  /  Ken Jacobs
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis   2007

Release Date: 
2007

Rating: 7.4

genres: 
Documentary
Stars: 
Jack Smith  /  Ira Cohen  /  Tony Conrad
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty   2000

Release Date: 
2000

Rating: 8.2

genres: 
Documentary
Stars: 
Jonas Mekas  /  Stan Brakhage  /  Jane Wodening

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