Ken Jacobs
- Nascita
- 25 maggio 1933
- Morte
- 5 ottobre 2025
- Luogo di nascita
- 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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Regia 7
Recitazione 14
In esameArt Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse2025
In esameFragments of Paradise2022
In esameReminiscences of Jonas Mekas2016
In esameWhat Is Cinema?2013
In esameSleepless Nights Stories2011
In esameFree Radicals: A History of Experimental Film2011
In esameMomma's Man2008
In esameStar Spangled to Death2004
In esameAs I was moving ahead occasionally I saw brief glimpses of beauty2000
In esameBirth of a Nation1997
In esameJonas in the Desert1994
In esameHe Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life1986
In esameLost, Lost, Lost1976
In esameDiaries, Notes, and Sketches1968