Directed credits
212
Prolific
Very extensive directing filmography.
Director
Ken Jacobs
Directing
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Directed movies: 212Directed series: 0All crew credits: 215
TMDB ID: 930709
IMDb ID: nm0414499
Known for: Directing
Born: May 25, 1933
Died: October 5, 2025
Age: 92
Place of birth: Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1955 - 2026
Years active: 72
Average TMDB rating: 5.9
Wikidata: Q325399
Also known as
켄 제이콥스
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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 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.
Movies
Directed Movies
Movies directed by Ken Jacobs.
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 41
Director
2026 Movie
BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 40
Director
2025 Movie
Book of Eternalisms 39
Director
2025 Movie
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Director
2023 Movie
Up the Illusion
Director
2023 Movie
Writhing City
Director
2023 Movie
From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
Director
2023 Movie
Other Urban Lives
Director
2023 Movie
Book of Eternalisms 1-6
Director
2023 Movie
Spasm
Director
2023 Movie
Whims of Twenty Twenty-Three
Director
2023 Movie
Tourists of the Familiar 1
Director
2023 Movie
Tourists of the Familiar 5
Director
2023 Movie
Tourists of the Familiar 10
Director
2023 Movie
Tourists of the Familiar 15
Director
2023 Movie
Tourists of the Familiar 20
Director
2023 Movie
Real Action Figures
Director
2022 Movie
When Timofeev Moves Everything Moves
Director
2022 Movie
Sergei Eisenstein Embossed
Director
2022 Movie
Buster Keaton Embossed
Director
2022 Movie
One Dozen Roses
Director
2022 Movie
America Let's Her Hair Down 1905
Director
2022 Movie
Eternal Beach
Director
2021 Movie
Abstract Eternalism
Director
2021 Movie
Movies
Most Popular Movies
Most viewed movie titles linked with Ken Jacobs.
Barber
Director
2020 Movie
Up the Illusion
Director
2023 Movie
Other Urban Lives
Director
2023 Movie
2.7
Blonde Cobra
Director
1963 Movie
6.5
What Is Cinema?
as Self
2013 Movie
The Winter Footage
Director
1964 Movie
Granular
Director
2015 Movie
3.8
60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
Director
2011 Movie
7.6
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
as Self
2000 Movie
Home Movies 1971-81
1985 Movie
7.4
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as Self
1968 Movie
10.0
365 Day Project
as Self
2007 Movie
Movies
Other Crew Work in Movies
Additional movie credits for Ken Jacobs.
Movies
Acting Appearances in Movies
Movie cast credits for Ken Jacobs.
9.0
Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse
as Self
2025 Movie
Ken Jacobs - from Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern Art
as Self
2023 Movie
Art-House America: Austin Film Society
as Self
2023 Movie
6.5
Fragments of Paradise
as Self
2022 Movie
Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
2016 Movie
6.5
What Is Cinema?
as Self
2013 Movie
The Eternal Courtship
2013 Movie
1.0
Emma's Dilemma
as Himself
2012 Movie
5.3
Sleepless Nights Stories
as Self
2011 Movie
6.8
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
as Himself
2011 Movie
7.0
Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
as Himself
2011 Movie
5.0
Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta?
as Himself
2010 Movie