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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 New Releases, 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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