Ken Jacobs

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Ken Jacobs (born May 25, 1933 in Williamsburg , Brooklyn , New York City , USA ) is an American avant-garde film director , experimental filmmaker and university professor who lives in New York City.

life and work

Ken Jacobs studied painting with Hans Hofmann . Together with Larry Gottheim, he founded the Department of Cinema at Binghamton University in New York (then: Harpur College ) in 1969 , where he taught, among other things, Art Spiegelman , the author of the comic book Mouse - The Story of a Survivor . Jacobs was Distinguished Professor of Cinema there until his retirement in 2003 .

In the early 1970s he coined the term paracinema for film experiences that were outside of standard cinema technology. Ken Jacobs took part in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972, where his films were shown in the Film Show : New American Cinema department and he was also represented at Documenta 6 (1977).

Jacobs Film Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1969) was inducted into the US National Film Registry in 2007. Another notable work is Star Spangled to Death (2004), a nearly seven-hour film that consists essentially of found footage , largely uncut footage.

Filmography

  • 1957: The Alps and the Jews
  • 1960: Little Stabs at Happiness
  • 1963: The Death of P'town
  • 1963: Blonde Cobra
  • 1964: Window
  • 1969: Tom, Tom, The Piper's Son
  • 1991: Keaton's Cops
  • 1991: Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896
  • 1996: The Georgetown Loop
  • 1996: Disorient Express
  • 2002: Circling Zero: We See Absence
  • 2004: Star Spangled to Death
  • 2007: Razzle Dazzle (The Lost World)
  • 2007: Capitalism: Child Labor
  • 2007: Nymph
  • 2007: New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903
  • 2008: Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames that Changed the World
  • 2008: The Scenic Route
  • 2011: The pushcarts leave Eternity Street
  • 2011: Seeking the Monkey King
  • 2011: 60 seconds of solitude in year zero
  • 2016: Reichstag 9/11

Literature and Sources

  1. ↑ Jonathan Walley: The 'Paracinema' of Anthony McCall and Tony Conrad . In: Alexander Graf, Dietrich Scheunemann: Avant-Garde Film . Editions Rodopi, Amsterdam 2007.
  • Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
  • documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X
  • Catalog for documenta 6: Volume 1: Painting, sculpture / environment, performance; Volume 2: photography, film, video; Volume 3: Hand drawings, utopian design, books; Kassel 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00-X

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personal data
SURNAME Jacobs, Ken
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film artist
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , USA