Ken Jacobs Dead: Noted Experimental Filmmaker Was 92

Ken Jacobs , the pioneering experimental filmmaker noted for incorporating manipulated found footage into a series of films over more than seven decades, died Sunday in Manhattan. He was 92.

His son, filmmaker Azazel Jacobs , noted that Ken’s wife Flo Jacobs had died on June 4: “While the official cause of death was from kidney failure, life without his collaborator and partner since 1960 was unimaginable for so many, especially him.

“He worked on his art every day, completing some final ‘eternalisms’ on the day he went to the hospital,” Azazel Jacobs continued.

Film at Lincoln Center called him “the titan of American experimental cinema.”

Born in Brooklyn, Ken Jacobs got his start in New York’s downtown art scene during the 1960s during the era of Andy Warhol and Allen Ginsberg.