Ken Jacobs

Career Overview

Ken Jacobs has 336 screen credits in a career dating back to 1955. Their work is anchored in the The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse universe with 1 titles. Signature works include For Life, Against the War, Sky Dive, Spotted Fever. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For: Directing
Gender: male
Known Credits: 336
Birth Date: 1933-05-25
Birth Place: Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Known For

Associated Universes

The Adventures of the Exquisite Corpse (1 titles)

Credits

directing (279 credits)
- Sky Dive
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  2026
- Spotted Fever
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  2026
- Depth for One Eye or Two
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  2026
- Downtown Loft with Skylights
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  2026
- A Date with Shirley
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  2026
- BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 43
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  2026
- BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 41
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  2026
- BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 42
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  2026
- BOOK OF ETERNALISMS 40
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  2025
- Book of Eternalisms 39
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  2025
- BMT
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  2025
- Riverbed
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  2024
- Tourists of the Familiar 70
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  2024
- Book of Eternalisms 8
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  2023
- Book of Eternalisms 7
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  2023
- For James Otis
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  2023
- Up the Illusion
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  2023
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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  2023
- Writhing City
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  2023
- From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight
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  2023
- Other Urban Lives
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  2023
- Book of Eternalisms 1-6
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  2023
- Spasm
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  2023
- Whims of Twenty Twenty-Three
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  2023
- Tourists of the Familiar 1
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  2023
- Tourists of the Familiar 5
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  2023
- Tourists of the Familiar 10
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  2023
- Tourists of the Familiar 15
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  2023
- Tourists of the Familiar 20
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  2023
- Manhattan is an Island
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  2023
- Hobgoblin Ball
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  2023
- Real Action Figures
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  2022
- When Timofeev Moves Everything Moves
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  2022
- Sergei Eisenstein Embossed
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  2022
- Buster Keaton Embossed
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  2022
- One Dozen Roses
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  2022
- America Lets Her Hair Down 1905
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  2022
- Eat the Rich: Aligning Perspectives and Other Challenges to Viewers
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  2022
- Eternal Beach
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  2021
- Abstract Eternalism
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  2021
- Double Wow
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  2021
- XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX
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  2021
- A Small Misunderstanding
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  2021
- Cartoonish 1-10
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  2021
- Adventures of Cookie Truck
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  2021
- Hoffman Student
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  2021
- Aspiring To Music
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  2021
- In Front of Anthology
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  2021
- Movie That Invites Pausing
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  2020
- Spiky
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  2020
- Storefront
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  2020
- Transparent Apartments
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  2020
- Municipal Building Passage
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  2020
- Clouds and Trees
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  2020
- Bandit
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  2020
- Whirlpool
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  2020
- Hubble II
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  2020
- Halley’s Comet
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  2020
- Water Balloon
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  2020
- Spaceworks
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  2020
- Another Day in Days of Yore
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  2020
- Garage Wall
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  2020
- Period Piece
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  2020
- Street Commerce II
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  2020
- Street Commerce
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  2020
- Resting Merchant
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  2020
- Broadway Buildings II
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  2020
- Broadway Buildings III
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  2020
- Neon Sign
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  2020
- Flowers and Bike
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  2020
- Brick Building with Red and Green Windows
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  2020
- Broadway Building
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  2020
- Fire Escape
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  2020
- Duck
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  2020
- Chinese New Years
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  2020
- Chinese New Years II
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  2020
- City Foliage
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  2020
- Sleeping American
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  2020
- Bison
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  2020
- Bargains
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  2020
- Doyer Street
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  2020
- DeKooning Passed
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  2020
- Waiting Room Window
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  2020
- Natural Collage
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  2020
- Reading Society
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  2020
- Roots of Manhattan
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  2020
- Lazy City
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  2020
- Friendly Building
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  2020
- Working Girls (short)
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  2020
- Barber
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  2020
- Foliage in Moving Car Window
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  2020
- Facade with Face
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  2020
- RECIPROCAL
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  2020
- Red Green
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  2020
- Ken and Flo
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  2020
- Rain Clouds
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  2020
- PAINTED POSTER
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  2020
- DR. TOOTHY
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  2020
- Rubble
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  2020
- CRUSH
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  2019
- PAPPY SEES 3D, TOO
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  2019
- Failure
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  2019
- Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party
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  2019
- Things to Come
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  2019
- MOVING ROAD
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  2019
- Figures I - V
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  2019
- THE WHOLE SHEBANG
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  2019
- ABSTRACT
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  2019
- Chaos Is Order Misunderstood
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  2019
- Above the Rain
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  2019
- The Sky Socialist: The Environs
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  2019
- Joan Mitchell: Departures
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  2019
- Once Upon a Planet
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  2019
- Details of Pollock's White Light
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  2019
- Cartoon
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  2019
- Nervous Magic Lantern: 3D for One or Two Naked Eyes
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  2019
- Dimsum and Dragons
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  2019
- The Moments: Evening Boat Ride
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  2018
- Tree Stump
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  2018
- Swee’pea’s Favorite Eternalisms
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  2017
- Get Up and Go
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  2017
- Along the Elevated
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  2017
- Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl
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  2017
- A Spin Through Night City
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  2017
- Beautiful Dreamer
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  2017
- Ulysses in the Subway
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  2017
- Windbreaker
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  2017
- Capitalism Defeats Life on Earth, Cab in Rain
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  2017
- Central Park
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  2016
- Snow in Headlights II
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  2016
- Reichstag 9/11
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  2016
- BMT Canal Street
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  2016
- Mosco Street 3: Attack of The Perfect Camera (Fuji W3)
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  2016
- Mosco Street 2
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  2016
- Molten Landscape
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  2016
- Lurking
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  2016
- Ken Jacobs / Tom Chiu of Flux Quartet @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
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  2016
- Ken Jacobs / Victoria Keddie @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
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  2016
- Ken Jacobs / Ghosts Of The Holy Ghost Spermic Brotherhood @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
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  2016
- Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
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  2016
- Ken Jacobs / Robert Poss @The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
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  2016
- Ken Jacobs / diNMachine @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
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  2016
- Ken Jacobs / JG Thirlwell @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
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  2016
- I'm Telling You
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  2016
- Hydroelectric Dam
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  2016
- Empty Seats
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  2015
- Batchellor’s Dog and Beach
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  2015
- Afternoon Tide
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  2015
- Zazie Learns About Money
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  2015
- Aimless Sightseeing, Seoul
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  2015
- Chrysalis
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  2015
- Cyclops Observes the Celestial Bodies
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  2015
- The Lackadaisical Speed of Light
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  2015
- Granular
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  2015
- Floral
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  2015
- Wire Fence
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  2014
- Canopy
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  2014
- Pygmalion Cubed
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  2014
- Celestial Bodies
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  2014
- The Guests
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  2014
- Popeye Sees 3-D
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  2014
- A Primer in Sky Socialism
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  2013
- Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #2
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  2013
- Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #1
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  2013
- Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #3
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  2013
- Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #4
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  2013
- Blankets for Indians
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  2012
- Street Vendor
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  2012
- 20 Little Films
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  2012
- 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
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  2011
- OCCUPY WALL STREET, THE 99% JOIN IN
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  2011
- Seeking the Monkey King
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  2011
- The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street
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  2011
- America at War, The Home Front: Film Opening
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  2011
- Revolving Door
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  2011
- Turbulent Waters
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  2011
- The Roses
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  2011
- The Green Wave
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  2011
- Another Occupation
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  2011
- Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
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  2011
- DAY AND NIGHT
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  2011
- A Loft
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  2010
- Sensoriums at Sea: Dr. Toothy's New Entranceway
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  2010
- Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two
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  2010
- The Near-Collision
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  2010
- Fair And White: Parts I, II, III and Extra
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  2010
- Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days
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  2009
- Excerpt From THE SKY SOCIALIST Stratified
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  2009
- Walkway
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  2009
- Brook
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  2009
- Brain Operations
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  2009
- Bob Fleischner Dying
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  2009
- "Slow is Beauty"-Rodin
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  2009
- Berkeley To San Francisco
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  2009
- What Happened on 23rd Street in 1901
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  2009
- Hot Dogs At The Met
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  2009
- Ronald Gonzales, Sculptor
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  2009
- Gravity Is Tops
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  2009
- The Day Was a Scorcher
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  2009
- The Signing
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  2009
- Return to the Scene of the Crime
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  2008
- Elbow Dance
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  2008
- Amorous Interludes: His Favorite Wife Improved (or The Virtue Of Bad Reception)
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  2008
- Alone at Last
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  2008
- The Discovery
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  2008
- The Scenic Route
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  2008
- Love Story
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  2008
- Anaglyph Tom (Tom with Puffy Cheeks)
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  2008
- Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World
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  2007
- Hanky Panky January 1902
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  2007
- Nymph
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  2007
- We Are Charming
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  2007
- Popeye Sees 3-D, TOO
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  2007
- Mosco Street Rapture
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  2007
- Titles
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  2007
- Capitalism: Slavery
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  2007
- Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World
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  2007
- Nervous Lantern at Kill Your Timid Notion Festival
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  2007
- New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903
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  2007
- Capitalism: Child Labor
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  2007
- Pushcarts of Eternity Street
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  2006
- Two Wrenching Departures
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  2006
- The Surging Sea of Humanity
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  2006
- Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise
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  2005
- Insistent Clamor
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  2005
- Le Prince: Leeds Bridge 1888
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  2005
- Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy: Bye Molly
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  2005
- Spiral Nebula
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  2005
- Let There Be Whistle Blowers
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  2005
- Krypton Is Doomed
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  2005
- Mountaineer Spinning
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  2004
- Star Spangled to Death
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  2004
- Keeping an Eye on Stan
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  2003
- The Whirled
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  2003
- Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence
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  2002
- The Sky Socialist: Flight
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  2002
- A Tom Tom Chaser
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  2002
- New York Street Trolleys 1900
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  1999
- Flo Rounds a Corner
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  1999
- Disorient Express
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  1996
- The Georgetown Loop
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  1996
- Looting For Rodney
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  1995
- Make Light On Film
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  1995
- Bitemporal Vision: The Sea
  director
  
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  1994
- Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896
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  1991
- Keaton's Cops
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  1991
- Chronometer
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  1990
- The Alps and The Jews
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  1986
- Perfect Film
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  1985
- The Doctor's Dream
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  1977
- Book of Splendors, Part Two, Book of Levers: Action at a Distance
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  1977
- Spaghetti Aza
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  1976
- Urban Peasants
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  1975
- Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture
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  1975
- Changing Azazel
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  1973
- Binghamton, My India
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  1970
- Nissan Ariana Window
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  1969
- Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
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  1969
- Globe
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  1969
- The Sky Socialist
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  1968
- Soft Rain
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  1968
- For Life, Against the War
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  1967
- Airshaft
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  1967
- Lisa and Joey in Connecticut
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  1965
- Naomi Is A Dream of Loveliness
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  1965
- 1st Window
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  1964
- Window
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  1964
- We Stole Away
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  1964
- The Winter Footage
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  1964
- Winter Sky
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  1964
- Artie and Marty Rosenblatt’s Baby Pictures
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  1964
- Little Stabs at Happiness
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  1963
- TV Plug
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  1963
- Blonde Cobra
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  1963
- Baud'larian Capers
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  1962
- The Death of P'town
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  1961
- Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice
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  1956
- Little Cobra Dance
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  1956
- Orchard Street
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  1955
actors (37 credits)
- Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2025
- Ken Jacobs - from Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern Art
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2023
- Art-House America: Austin Film Society
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2023
- Up the Illusion
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2023
- Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2022
- Fragments of Paradise
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2022
- Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2016
- What Is Cinema?
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2013
- The Eternal Courtship
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2013
- Emma's Dilemma
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2012
- Sleepless Nights Stories
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2011
- Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2011
- Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2011
- Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2011
- Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta?
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2010
- Lavender
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2010
- Momma's Man
  Dad
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2008
- 365 Day Project
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2007
- Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2007
- Star Spangled to Death
  Oscar Friendly / Ringmaster / Janitor
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2004
- Nervous Ken
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2003
- Shorts From the Underground
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2002
- Flo and Ken Jacobs
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  actors
  
  2001
- As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  2000
- Birth of a Nation
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1997
- Jonas in the Desert
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1994
- Quartet Number One
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1991
- He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
  Self (archive footage)
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1986
- Home Movies 1971-81
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1985
- Lost, Lost, Lost
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1976
- Horizons
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1973
- Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema”
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1973
- Huge Pupils
  Himself
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1968
- Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
  Self
  
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1968
- Bill's Hat
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1967
- Blonde Cobra
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1963
- Scotch Tape
  actor
  
  actors
  
  1963
editing (5 credits)
- XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX
  editor
  
  editing
  
  2021
- A Loft
  editor
  
  editing
  
  2010
- Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise
  editor
  
  editing
  
  2005
- Star Spangled to Death
  editor
  
  editing
  
  2004
- Window
  editor
  
  editing
  
  1964
writing (8 credits)
- Cyclops Observes the Celestial Bodies
  writer
  
  writing
  
  2015
- The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street
  writer
  
  writing
  
  2011
- Another Occupation
  writer
  
  writing
  
  2011
- The Day Was a Scorcher
  writer
  
  writing
  
  2009
- Spiral Nebula
  writer
  
  writing
  
  2005
- Star Spangled to Death
  writer
  
  writing
  
  2004
- Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1991
- Keaton's Cops
  writer
  
  writing
  
  1991
crew (3 credits)
- Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #2
  technical supervisor
  
  crew
  
  2013
- Star Spangled to Death
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  2004
- Window
  cinematography
  
  crew
  
  1964
production (3 credits)
- New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903
  producer
  
  production
  
  2007
- Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise
  producer
  
  production
  
  2005
- Window
  producer
  
  production
  
  1964
camera (1 credits)
- Monks of Cinema
  camera operator
  
  camera
  
  2006