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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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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: 3.8 (4 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, United Kingdom
Found Footage Magazine issue #9

By Marcos Ortega on Mon, 02/10/2023 - 11:39
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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
THRILLS AND SPILLS - Found Footage Filmmaking: From Castle films to pornography

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 11/04/2023 - 09:30

The practice of recycling cinematographic images is almost as old as cinema itself. While it has frequently had a utilitarian, documentary or ideological function, it is also intimately tied to the history of avant-garde cinema since at least the 1930s. While many found footage films and artists associated with the practice are relatively well known, less is known about the nature and provenance of the images that are found and repurposed.
Dates:
Saturday, April 29, 2023 - 19:00
Venue:
Tabakalera - San Sebastián, Spain
Ken Jacobs, Up The Illusion

By Marcos Ortega on Fri, 10/03/2023 - 05:36

80WSE is pleased to present Up The Illusion, a momentous survey exhibition celebrating the 90th birthday of Ken Jacobs, one of our most iconic and indefatigable moving image artists. Curated by Andrew Lampert, this street level exhibition features a panoramic selection of Jacobs’ nearly 70 years of pioneering films and digital videos in the Broadway Windows gallery located on the corner of Broadway and E. 10th Street.
Dates:
Saturday, April 15, 2023 (All day) to Thursday, November 23, 2023 (All day)
Venue:
Broadway Windows Gallery - New York, United States