Ken Jacobs
Director · 306 credits · 14 in highly-rated films
Best known for As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
Frequent collaborators: Jonas Mekas, Flo Jacobs, Stan Brakhage, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Breer
Directed movies (279 total, ranked by score)
31Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
1969 · ★ 6.0 (14 votes)
Comedy
32The Pushcarts Leave Eternity Street
2011
- 33
Titles
2007 · ★ 1.0 (1 votes)
34The Whirled
2003
35Keaton's Cops
1991
36The Death of P'town
1961
37For Life, Against the War
1967 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)
Animation
38Capitalism: Child Labor
2007 · ★ 6.0 (2 votes)
39Window
1964 · ★ 5.0 (5 votes)
Documentary
40Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World
2007 · ★ 5.3 (3 votes)
4160 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero
2011 · ★ 4.2 (7 votes)
Drama, Comedy, Documentary
42Capitalism: Slavery
2007 · ★ 4.9 (17 votes)
43Blonde Cobra
1963 · ★ 3.0 (41 votes)
44The Scenic Route
2008
45Reading Society
2020
Documentary, Animation
- 46
The Surging Sea of Humanity
2006
- 47
Elbow Dance
2008
48The Day Was a Scorcher
2009
- 49
Sensoriums at Sea: Toothy Two
2010
50Chinese New Years
2020
Documentary, Animation
51PAPPY SEES 3D, TOO
2019
Documentary, Animation
52New York Street Trolleys 1900
1999
53Foliage in Moving Car Window
2020
Documentary, Animation
54Resting Merchant
2020
Documentary, Animation
- 55
Sergei Eisenstein Embossed
2022
56Abstract Eternalism
2021
57Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl
2017
Documentary
58The Roses
2011
59Once Upon a Planet
2019
60Ken Jacobs / Rick Reed & Tara Bhattacharya @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival
2016
Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 31, 2026.