Ken Jacobs has been making films for over fifty years. In that time, his work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the American Museum of the Moving Image, and in numerous international film festivals. He is a Distinguished Professor of the Department of Cinema, which he started at SUNY Binghamton in 1969.
In 2007 his experimental film project Tom, Tom the Piper�s Son (1969-71) was among the 25 American films added to the Library of Congress� National Registry.