Ken Jacobs
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Ken Jacobs [1] (born May 25 1933) is an American experimental filmmaker and director of Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1969, USA).
He coined the term paracinema in the early 1970s, referring to cinema experiences provided by means outside of standard cinema technology. He is also a long-time friend of Art Spiegelman of Maus fame, former painting student of Hans Hoffmann, and in 1969 with Larry Gottheim started the Cinema dept. at Harpur College (now Binghamton University), providing arts education and tools of critical thinking to students until his retirement in 2003 as a Distinguished Professor of Cinema. He is included in the Whitney Museum's list of the hundred greatest artists of the twentieth century. He resides in New York, New York.
