Ken Jacobs

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

Life and work

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

In the early 1970s he coined the term para cinema for film experiences that move beyond the standard Cinema Technology. Ken Jacobs participated in the Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in part where his films in the Department of Film Acting: New American Cinema were shown and he was also represented at the Documenta 6 (1977).

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

Filmography

Literature and sources

• Exhibition catalog: documentation fifth survey of reality - imagery today; Catalog (as folders ) Volume 1: (material); Volume 2: ( list of exhibits ); Kassel in 1972
• Documenta Archive (ed. ); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive to the 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: drawings, utopian design, books; Kassel 1977 ISBN 3-920453-00- X