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Jacobs, Ken (American filmmaker, 1933-2025)
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Note: Jacobs experimented with the cinematic form over a 65 year period, and was considered one of the pioneers of American underground or experimental non-narrative cinema. He worked closely with Jack Smith, another noteable filmmaker working in lower Manhattan on several projects as early as 1959. Jacobs shot his own original footage, but worked with found footage as well to construct new works. His spouse, Florence Jacobs worked closely with him on his film projects. Both Ken and Flo Jacobs were founding members of the Millennium Film Workshop, a nonprofit cooperative that provided resources to independent filmmakers. From 1969 he taught at Binghamton University, founding a film department there with Larry Gottheim. In 1999 he began a series of works that toyed with the nature of cinematic perception in various ways, in some cases in live projection-performances. He is the father of independent filmmaker Azazel Jacobs and Nisi Ariana, a multimedia artist and musician who also collaborated with him. |
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Smith, Jack |
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(American filmmaker, 1932-1989) [500350481] |
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Mekas, Jonas |
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(American and Lithuanian filmmaker and poet, 1922-2019) [500094053] |
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Jacobs, Azazel |
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(American artist, born 1972) [500471134] |
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Hofmann, Hans |
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(American painter and teacher, 1880-1966, born in Germany) [500024228] |
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Spiegelman, Art |
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(American illustrator and cartoonist, born 1948) [500123900] |
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(American filmmaker, 1933-2025) ..... [VP Preferred]
(artist) ..... [GRI Special Collections]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(American artist, born 1933) ..... [MoMA]
(American cinematographer, 1933-) ..... [RKD]
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New York Times [online] (2000-) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/movies/ken-jacobs-dead.html |
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