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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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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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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
Emotional Materials/Personal Processes - Six Interviews with Experimental Filmmakers
“This handful of interviews originated at A Coruña’s (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico.
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Average: 3.3 (3 votes)
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Books
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Stereo Editions
Ken Jacobs Collection, Vol. 1: 1955-2021
Ken Jacobs is one of the most wildly creative and influential film artists and teachers in the history of the medium, and Kino Classics is proud to present this two-disc selection from his vast body of work (additional titles will be available digitally via Kino Now). Jacobs, born in Brooklyn, NY in 1933, studied Abstract Expressionism with Hans Hofmann before turning to filmmaking – where he became a prolific member of the underground scene, along with contemporaries Jonas Mekas, Jack Smith, and Stan Brakhage.
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Average: 3 (4 votes)
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Blu-Ray
Publisher:
Kino Lorber
Power Misses II: Cinema, Asian and Modern
Like David James' earlier collection of essays, Power Misses: Essays Across (Un)Popular Culture (1996), the present volume, Power Misses II: Cinema, Asian and Modern is concerned with popular cultural activity that propose alternatives and opposition to capitalist media. Now with a wider frame of reference, it moves globally from west to east, beginning with films made during the Korean Democracy Movement, and then turning to socialist realism in China and Taiwan, and to Asian American film and poetry in Los Angeles. Several other avant-garde film movements in L.A.
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Average: 1 (1 vote)
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Books
Publisher:
John Libbey Publishing
Online premiere of Ken Jacobs' "MOVIE THAT INVITES PAUSING"

By Marcos Ortega on Wed, 27/05/2020 - 02:10

KEN JACOBS - "MOVIE THAT INVITES PAUSING"
Premiere Thursday, May 28, 8PM

Anthology Film Archives and Screen Slate co-presenting the premiere of Ken Jacobs "MOVIE THAT INVITES PAUSING".

In addition to MOVIE... (24 min), they will also screen "Things to Come" (35 min), with a pre-show of recent Eternalism gifs. Afterwards, Ken will be joined by Anthology archivist John Klacsmann for a live chat.
Dates:
Thursday, May 28, 2020 - 20:00 to Friday, May 29, 2020 - 19:55