Ken Jacobs

Ken Jacobs (born May 25, 1933) is an American experimental filmmaker. He is the director of Tom, Tom, The Piper's Son (1969, USA), which was admitted to the National Film Registry in 2007, and Star Spangled to Death (2004, USA), a nearly seven hour film consisting largely of found footage. He coined the term paracinema in the early 1970s, referring to cinema experiences provided by means outside of standard cinema technology. He was an influential teacher of Art Spiegelman of Maus fame, former painting student of Hans Hofmann, and in 1969 with Larry Gottheim started the Cinema department at Harpur College at Binghamton University providing arts education and tools of critical thinking to students until his retirement in 2003 as a...