Ken Jacobs
- Naissance
- 25 mai 1933
- Décès
- 5 octobre 2025
- Origine
- 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.
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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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Réalisation 7
Interprétation 14
À l’étudeArt Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse2025
À l’étudeFragments of Paradise2022
À l’étudeReminiscences of Jonas Mekas2016
À l’étudeWhat Is Cinema?2013
À l’étudeSleepless Nights Stories2011
À l’étudeFree Radicals: A History of Experimental Film2011
À l’étudeMomma's Man2008
À l’étudeStar Spangled to Death2004
À l’étudeAs I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty2000
À l’étudeBirth of a Nation1997
À l’étudeJonas in the Desert1994
À l’étudeHe Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life1986
À l’étudeLost, Lost, Lost1976
À l’étudeDiaries, Notes, and Sketches1968