Ken Kobland

Born 1946 - Bronx, New York

Ken Kobland has been working in various aspects of film and video since 1971, creating productions in collaboration with performing artists such as Philip Glass, the Wooster Group, Elizabeth LeCompte, and Spalding Gray. His work explores a variety of themes and issues, often embracing a photographic aesthetic within the context of video. Beautifully edited, his work merges diaristic and documentary categories, presenting an art of video that approximates photo-journalism. He is a recipient of the 1986 Berlin Artist in Residence Fellowship (DAAD) and has received a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.

Available Titles by Ken Kobland

Title	Year	Runtime	Collection
2 Jumps in a Row	2015	00:31:00	Single Titles
4. Down / 6. Across	2015	00:10:45	Single Titles
A Pee, A Poop, A Plate: Paradise	2021	00:13:19	Single Titles
ARISE! Walk Dog Eat Donut	1999	00:24:00	Single Titles
Berlin: Tourist Journal	1988	00:18:59	Single Titles
Buildings and Grounds/ The Angst Archive	2003	00:45:00	Single Titles
Cabinet of Curiosities	2014	00:27:25	Single Titles
CHEZ NOUS (a folly)	2019	00:18:53	Single Titles
The Communists Are Comfortable	1984	00:54:40	Single Titles
THE COUCH CHRONICLES (II-THE LUMPEN)	2023	00:04:50	Single Titles
THE COUCH CHRONICLES (III-THE CHEVY)	2023	00:03:50	New Releases, Single Titles
THE COUCH CHRONICLES (IV-MOTT)	2023	00:06:40	New Releases, Single Titles
THE COUCH CHRONICLES (V-THE STREET)	2023	00:11:50	New Releases, Single Titles
THE COUCH CHRONICLES II-V	2023	00:26:30	New Releases, Single Artist Compilations
THE DRESS	2021	00:14:00	Single Titles
End Credits	1994	00:07:00	Single Titles
Film Work 1975-2011 Ken Kobland	2012	08:00:00	Single Artist Compilations
Flaubert Dreams of Travel But the Illness of His Mother Prevents It.	1986	00:20:00	Single Titles
Flushed-at-Once	2002	00:00:54	Single Titles
Foto Roman	1990	00:28:00	Single Titles
Frame	1977	00:10:00	Single Titles
Ideas of Order in Cinque Terre	2005	00:31:30	Single Titles
Landscape and Desire	1981	00:29:00	Single Titles
LOOKING BACKWARD(s)	2020	00:44:56	Single Titles
LSD: The Re-Reading	2024	00:12:33	New Releases, Single Titles
Moscow X	1993	00:57:00	Single Titles
The Moving Finger	2024	00:26:26	New Releases, Single Titles
Near and Far / Now and Then	1979	00:28:00	Single Titles
NOSTALGIA	2022	00:29:00	Single Titles
On Tour	2001	01:02:00	Single Titles
The Pathetic Phallicy	2022	00:18:00	Single Titles
Piece for Spald	2004	00:09:40	Single Titles
Regarding the Pain of Others	2020	00:11:35	Single Titles
Shanghaied Text	1996	00:19:47	Single Titles
Stupa	1992	01:00:46	Single Titles
The Nothing That Is	2016	00:16:30	Single Titles
The Toy Sun	2011	00:33:00	Single Titles
Vestibule (In 3 Episodes)	1978	00:20:07	Single Titles
Where Was I Now	2015	00:20:33	Single Titles

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