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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…
Known for
- Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse — Self2025
- Art-House America: Austin Film Society — Self2023
- Ken Jacobs - from Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern Art — Self2023
- Up the Illusion2023
- Fragments of Paradise — Self2022
- Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages2022
- Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas2016
- What Is Cinema? — Self2013
- The Eternal Courtship2013
- Emma's Dilemma — Himself2012
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ken
- Family name
- Jacobs
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn
- Place of death
- Manhattan
- Child
- Azazel Jacobs
- Occupation
- cinematographer
- Employer
- Binghamton University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
- Participant in
- Documenta 6
- Field of work
- experimental film
- Official website
- www.kenjacobsgallery.com
- Image
- Ken Jacobs 1.png
- Work location
- New York City
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- Ken Jacobs
- date of birth
- 1933-05-25
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- name in native language
- Ken Jacobs
- has works in the collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- floruit
- 2013-01-01
- archives at
- University of Colorado Boulder
- date of death
- 2025-10-05
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- kidney failure
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