Ken Jacobs

Ken Jacobs

Ken Jacobs (born May 25, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American experimental filmmaker.He is the director of Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1969, USA), which was admitted to the National Film Registry in 2007. His Star Spangled to Death (2004, USA) is a nearly seven-hour film consisting largely of found footage.Jacobs taught at the Cinema Department at Harpur College at Binghamton University from 1969 to 2002. His son Azazel Jacobs is also a filmmaker.The style of Jacobs is largely concentrated around the technique of "found footage" - the author works with a stranger in a kinomaterial, sometimes occasional, conceptualizing it on the mounting table. So not only "Star Spangled to Death" appeared, but also another cult film Jacobs "Tom Tom Son Dudocar." "Tom Tom" consists of a multifaceted and detailed analysis of the 1905 film, in which the timing tape increases with eight minutes to almost two hours. Committed in 1969 "Tom, Tom, The Piper's Son" is one of the first examples of deconstruction in the cinema. In addition to assembly works, Jacobs was engaged in the production. The most famous game film Jacobs became the "Cobra Blonde", shot in the sign of 1963 with the participation of Jack Smith. In the same year, Jack Smith himself removed "Flaming Creatures", and Ron Rice - "Meet the Queen Shebia with an atomic man." In the 90s, began working with John Zorn and experiment using a stroboscopic effect, digital video and 3D.

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