Ken Jacobs

Ken Jacobs (born in 1933 in Brooklyn, New York) is an experimental filmmaker. Jacobs was a professor teaching at the Cinema Department at Binghamton University from the year 1969 to 2002. He is the director of 'Tom, Tom: The Piper's Son' (1969, USA), which was admitted to the National Film Registry in 2007. His film titled 'Star Spangled to Death' (2004, USA) is nearly a seven-hour film consisting largely of found footage. He also happens to be the recipient of the 1994 American Film Institute's 'Maya Deren Award'.