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)
91Brain Operations
2009
92Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence
2002
- 93
Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture
1975
94Broadway Building
2020
Documentary, Animation
95Duck
2020
Documentary, Animation
96Real Action Figures
2022
97Failure
2019
98Lazy City
2020
Documentary, Animation
99Cartoon
2019
100Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World
2007
101THE WHOLE SHEBANG
2019
Documentary, Animation
102Spaceworks
2020
Documentary, Animation
103Double Wow
2021
104Waiting Room Window
2020
Documentary, Animation
105Nervous Magic Lantern: 3D for One or Two Naked Eyes
2019
106Red Green
2020
Documentary, Animation
107Chaos Is Order Misunderstood
2019
108Bitemporal Vision: The Sea
1994
109Bargains
2020
Documentary, Animation
110The Near-Collision
2010
111When Timofeev Moves Everything Moves
2022
112Tourists of the Familiar 5
2023
113Writhing City
2023
114Book of Eternalisms 1-6
2023
115Insistent Clamor
2005
116The Green Wave
2011
Documentary
117Bison
2020
Documentary, Animation
- 118
Along the Elevated
2017
Documentary
119Swee’pea’s Favorite Eternalisms
2017
120Broadway Buildings II
2020
Documentary, Animation
Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 31, 2026.