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Ken Jacobs (* May 25, 1933 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, USA) is an American avant-garde film director, experimental filmmaker, and university lecturer living in New York City. He 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 Art Spiegelman, the author of the comic book Mouse - The Story of a Survivor. Jacobs was Distinguished Professor of Cinema until his retirement in 2003. In the early 1970s, he coined the term paracinema for film experiences outside standard cinema technology.Ken Jacobs took part in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972, where his films were shown in the Filmschau: New American Cinema and he was also represented at Documenta 6 (1977).
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1964 Window | 1969 Tom, Tom, The Piper's Son | 1996 The Georgetown Loop | 2002 Circling Zero: We See Absence | 2004 Star Spangled to Death | 2009 Walkway | 2013 A Primer in Sky Socialism | 2013 Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bu