"Described by the New York Times as the eminence grise of the American avant garde, Jacobs and his wife Flo, with whom he collaborated on much of his work, straddled the worlds of experimental art and American new wave film-making, along with the likes of Jack Smith, Andy Warhol and Jonas Mekas. He was a founding member of New York's Film-Makers' Co-Operative and the first director of the Millennium Film Workshop in 1966."
"In an interview with the Museum of Modern Art in 2024, Jacobs said that he and Flo worked like two painters seeing what was possible in showing film in unexpected ways and finding unexpected things happening. He added: We weren't just telling stories, movies with one shot, next shot, each shot hitting off the other one and making it tell a further element of the story. It was really to see things, to see coloured space operating, being vital, moving."
Ken Jacobs was a pioneering experimental filmmaker and a central figure in the 1960s underground film scene. He collaborated extensively with his wife Flo and bridged experimental art and American new wave cinema alongside figures such as Jack Smith, Andy Warhol and Jonas Mekas. Jacobs co-founded New York's Film-Makers' Co-Operative and became the first director of the Millennium Film Workshop in 1966, institutions that supported non-mainstream film-makers. Born in New York in 1933, he studied with Hans Hofmann, made his first film Orchard Street in 1955, and created works including Little Stabs at Happiness.
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