“Jacobs made movies that changed your ideas about what cinema is and could be. He expanded your sense of the art and your horizons, lit up your brain and blew your mind.”

— Manohla Dargis, “The Strangely Beautiful Realities You Can Discover in a Ken Jacobs Film,” The New York Times, October 7, 2025

Sean Malin — “Ken Jacobs, Visionary Experimental Filmmaker, Is Dead at 92,” The New York Times, October 6, 2025

Artforum — “Ken Jacobs (1933–2025),” October 2025

Read more: https://www.artforum.com/news/ken-jacobs-dies-19332025-1234736542/

Vadim Rizov — Filmmaker Magazine, October 2025

Read more: https://filmmakermagazine.com/132155-obituary-ken-jacobs-1933-2025/

Variety — Pat Saperstein, October 2025

Read more: https://variety.com/2025/film/news/ken-jacobs-dead-experimental-film-1236541528/

Deadline, October 2025

Read more: https://deadline.com/2025/10/ken-jacobs-dead-avant-garde-filmmaker-1236571803/

Cinemasters — “Remembering Filmmaker Ken Jacobs,” October 2025

Read more: https://www.cinemasters.net/post/remembering-filmmaker-ken-jacobs-1933-2025

William Rose — “Ken Jacobs obituary: giant of the American avant-garde working at the limits of perception,” BFI, October 23, 2025

Read more: https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/ken-jacobs-obituary

Lukas Brasiskis — “Eternalisms of the Nervous System: Ken Jacobs (1933–2025),” e-flux Notes, October 15, 2025

Read more: https://www.e-flux.com/notes/6783406/eternalisms-of-the-nervous-system-ken-jacobs-1933-2025

David Hudson — “Ken Jacobs’s Optic Antics,” The Criterion Collection, October 8, 2025

Read more: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/8948-ken-jacobs-s-optic-antics

ARTnews — “Ken Jacobs, Underground Film Legend, Dies at 92,” October 2025

Read more: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ken-jacobs-film-artist-dead-1234755856/

R. Emmet Sweeney — “A Wrenching Departure: Ken Jacobs,” October 23, 2025

Read more: https://oldnew.substack.com/p/a-wrenching-departure-ken-jacobs

The Film-Makers’ Cooperative — tribute, October 2025

Read more: https://film-makerscoop.com/programs/celebrating-ken-and-flo-jacobs

Criterion — “P. Adams Sitney, Flo Jacobs, and the Avant-garde,” June 2025

On Flo’s role, the “Flo Talks!” interview in Optic Antics, and Momma’s Man.

Read more: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/8829-p-adams-sitney-flo-jacobs-and-the-avant-garde

Anthology Film Archives — tribute to Flo Jacobs and P. Adams Sitney, June 2025

Anthology’s memorial to Flo and Sitney, who died the same week.

Read more: https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/about/sitney_flo

2026

J. Hoberman — “Ken Jacobs (1933–2025),” Artforum, January 2026 (Vol. 64, No. 5)

Read more: https://www.artforum.com/columns/ken-jacobs-obituary-j-hoberman-1234740603/

Brian Karl — “Analytic Projector: The Nervous Systems of Ken Jacobs,” The Brooklyn Rail, February 2026

Read more: https://brooklynrail.org/2026/02/film/analytic-projector-the-nervous-systems-of-ken-jacobs/

J. Hoberman — “Ken Jacobs’ History of the United States,” The New York Times, April 2026

On Star Spangled to Death at MoMA and The Whole Shebang citywide retrospective.

Read more: https://www.daytondailynews.com/nation-world/star-spangled-to-death-ken-jacobs-history-of-the-united-states/article_64b1a98d-3b74-5021-9895-76a9b39cd27f.html

MoMA — The Whole Shebang: Celebrating Ken & Flo Jacobs, April 2026

Curatorial text on the acquisition of over 200 works and the citywide celebration.

Read more: https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5896

Anthology Film Archives — The Whole Shebang series page, April 2026

Program text on Ken and Flo’s partnership; announces the book Ken Jacobs: I Walked Into My Shortcomings (The Visible Press).

Read more: https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/61016

Open City Documentary Festival / Barbican — “Seeing Through Film: Ken and Flo Jacobs,” London, 2026

The UK retrospective, with introductions by Mark Webber.

Read more: https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2026/event/tom-tom-the-pipers-son-introduction

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