Ken Jacobs
Birth: May 25, 1933 (Williamsburg, Brooklyn)
Official Website: Star Spangled to Death
Major Works: Disorient Express (1996)
The Georgetown Loop (1996)
Keaton’s Cops (1991)
Perfect Film (1985)
The Doctor’s Dream (1978)
Spaghetti Aza (1976)
Urban Peasants (1975)
Tom, Tom, The Piper’s Son (1969)
Soft Rain (1968)
Airshaft (1967)
Baud’Larian Capers (1963)
Blonde Cobra (1959-63)
Little Stabs at Happiness (1959-63)
Star Spangled to Death (1957-59) (2003-04)
Orchard Street (1955)
Notes: Studied painting with Hans Hofmann, one of the founders of Abstract Expressionism.
Founded The Millennium Film Workshop in 1967, a filmmakers cooperative.
Helped organize the SUNY educational system’s first Department of Cinema while teaching at Binghamton University where he continues to be a Distinguished Professor Emeritus.
1994: Recipient of AFI’s Maya Deren Independent Film and Video Artists Award.
Other Resources: IMDB: Profile
Logos: Interview
Conversation with History: Interview
Wikipedia: Bio and info
Video: Conversations with History: Ken Jacobs
[...] Boyce, Martha Colburn, Bradley Eros, Kevin Everson, Ernie Gehr, Michael Gitlin and Jacqueline Goss, Ken Jacobs, Kent Lambert, Oliver Laric, Jeanne Liotta, Eileen Maxson, Jenny Perlin, Luther Price, Michael [...]