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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)

  1. Water Balloon

    2020

    Animation

    181

  2. RECIPROCAL

    2020

    Animation

    182

  3. Street Commerce

    2020

    Documentary, Animation

    183

  4. Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party

    2019

    Documentary, Animation

    184

  5. The Doctor's Dream

    1977

    185

  6. Spaghetti Aza

    1976

    Documentary

    186

  7. Airshaft

    1967

    187

  8. Spiral Nebula

    2005

    188

  9. Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice

    1956

    189

  10. Windbreaker

    2017

    190

  11. Berkeley To San Francisco

    2009

    191

  12. Fair And White: Parts I, II, III and Extra

    2010

    192

  13. Street Vendor

    2012

    193

  14. Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus #3

    2013

    194

  15. I'm Telling You

    2016

    195

  16. The Winter Footage

    1964

    196

  17. We Stole Away

    1964

    197

  18. Winter Sky

    1964

    198

  19. Ronald Gonzales, Sculptor

    2009

    199

  20. Gravity Is Tops

    2009

    200

  21. Walkway

    2009

    201

  22. Lurking

    2016

    202

  23. Molten Landscape

    2016

    203

  24. Mosco Street Rapture

    2007

    204

  25. Zazie Learns About Money

    2015

    205

  26. Barber

    2020

    Documentary, Animation

    206

  27. Hubble II

    2020

    Documentary, Animation

    207

  28. Bandit

    2020

    Documentary, Animation

    208

  29. Ken Jacobs / Robert Poss @The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

    2016

    209

  30. Ken Jacobs / Victoria Keddie @ The Nervous Magic Lantern Festival

    2016

    210

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 30, 2026.