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Ken Jacobs

Ken Jacobs (born May 25 1933) is an American experimental filmmaker. He is the director of (1969, USA), which was admitted to the National Film Registry in 2007, and Star Spangled to Death (2004, USA), a nearly seven hour film comprised largely of found footage.

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Refle-x-périmental #26 : Round and Round. Carte blanche to the Millennium Film Journal

By Cinédoc on Tue, 23/06/2026 - 04:24

✸ Refle-x-périmental #26 : Round and Round ✸

Carte blanche to the Millennium Film Journal
Dates:
Thursday, July 2, 2026 - 20:30
Venue:
Le Reflet Médicis - Paris, France
Scratch Projection: UNDERGROUND: DISRUPTIVE, ERUPTIVE – GUEST PROGRAM BY J. HOBERMAN

By Light Cone on Wed, 13/05/2026 - 09:37

In collaboration with the film collection of the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou

Light Cone extends an invitation to the American film critic J. Hoberman to present a film program in connection with his latest book, Everything Is Now (Verso Books, 2025).
Dates:
Thursday, May 28, 2026 - 20:30
Venue:
Luminor Hôtel de Ville - Paris, France
Open City Documentary Festival 2026

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 08/04/2026 - 04:19

Open City Documentary Festival is excited to announce the full programme for its 16th edition, taking place in person from 14th to 19th April. Throughout the week we’ll be screening 125 new and historical films across London at our venues Barbican, Bertha DocHouse, BFI, Close-Up Film Centre, Institute of Contemporary Arts, and Rich Mix, where the Festival Hub will be based.
Dates:
Tuesday, April 14, 2026 (All day) to Sunday, April 19, 2026 (All day)
Star Spangled to Death

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 06/04/2026 - 06:48

Almost 7 hours long, Ken Jacobs' magnum opus is a social critique of the USA, as poignant and relevant today as in the 1950s.

One of the American avant-garde's most prolific figures, Ken Jacobs (1933-2025) eagerly embraced digital filmmaking in the late 1990s.

From the monumental Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son to his Nervous Magic Lantern performances and more recent digital and 3D explorations, Jacobs's work is an uncompromised declaration of love for cinema.
Dates:
Sunday, May 10, 2026 - 11:00
Venue:
Barbican Cinema - London, United Kingdom
Ken Jacobs - I Walked Into My Shortcomings
I WALKED INTO MY SHORTCOMINGS is the first book to gather the writings, teachings and interviews of Ken Jacobs (1933–2025), a towering and singular figure in American art and experimental film. Spanning seven decades of creativity, these texts complement a body of work that ranges from downtown capers and reworkings of historical found footage, to groundbreaking performances of expanded cinema and radical explorations of perception and depth. They reveal an artist relentlessly committed to transforming how we engage with the moving image.
Rating:

Average: 4 (5 votes)
Category:
Books
Publisher:
The Visible Press
Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son + Introduction by Mark Webber

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 05/02/2026 - 11:03

Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son + Introduction by Mark Webber
Open City Documentary Festival
Thu 12 Mar 2026, 18:30
Barbican Cinema 2

Ken Jacobs’ 1969 structural film classic created from found footage, including the 1905 original, is a masterful investigation of perception itself.

As a prologue to the retrospective Seeing Through Film: Ken and Flo Jacobs, this film includes the 1905 original from Billy Bitzer (D. W. Griffith’s cinematographer).
Dates:
Thursday, March 12, 2026 - 18:30
Venue:
Barbican Cinema - London, United Kingdom
Millennium Film Workshop and The Film-Makers' Cooperative Celebrate Ken and Flo Jacobs

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 30/10/2025 - 10:35

Join us at Millennium Film Workshop (167 Wilson Avenue, Brooklyn, NY) on Saturday, November 1st, from 5pm-11pm, for an evening of films and reminiscences honoring the lives and legacies of avant-garde titans Ken and Flo Jacobs.
Dates:
Saturday, November 1, 2025 - 17:00
Venue:
Millennium Film Workshop - New York, United States
Ken Jacobs - From Orchard Street to The Museum of Modern Art

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 11/11/2024 - 10:29

Ken Jacobs - From Orchard Street to The Museum of Modern Art
Fred Riedel, 2023, 98 min

Fred Riedel will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A hosted by Simon Field
Dates:
Friday, November 22, 2024 - 20:15
Venue:
Close-Up Cinema - London, Reino Unido
Found Footage Magazine issue #9

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 02/10/2023 - 11:39
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Category:
Releases
Screening LAV 016: I was a male Yvonne de Carlo

By Marcos Ortega on Thu, 18/05/2023 - 05:10

The own flesh. In and out of field. Sometimes other flesh, traversed by the film apparatus, can create new possibilities.
Dates:
Saturday, May 20, 2023 - 19:30
Venue:
Círculo de Bellas Artes - Madrid, Spain