Jeremy Jacob is an award-winning filmmaker and visual artist. Working in a variety of mediums, Jacob examines queer desire, often obfuscated, through the romantic and skeptical visions circulating within the American imaginary. Born on an industrial chicken farm in central Minnesota, Jacob’s work explores the conflict between work/play, reality/fantasy, and private/social through the lens of American princess fantasies as potential portals for liberation through socializing.

Jacob’s work has been presented by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Palazzo Grassi, Bard College, The Zuckerman Museum of Art, Cindy Rucker Gallery, Projekt 722, Montserrat College Of Art, New York Live Arts, American Ballet Theatre, The New York Public Library, among others. 

Jeremy Jacob is the founding director of A Doll’s House Pictures.

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, and SCREENINGS

2024. Dance Division Anniversary Fellow. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. New York, New York.
2024. Jurist for the New York Odyssey Film Festival. New York, New York.
2024. Cannes of Tuna Film Festival. “Dirt(y) Bag”. Zebulon. Los Angeles, California.
2024. The Carr Center for Human Rights / Harvard Kennedy School. ”Nowhere Apparent”. Screening. Cambridge, Massachusetts.
2023. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.”Nowhere Apparent”. Screening & Discussion. New York, New York.
2023. The Watermill Center Residency. Watermill, New York.
2023. Dance on Camera Festival. “I was waiting for the echo of a better day”. Screening. New York, New York.
2023. ALL ARTS. “Nowhere Apparent”. Film Release.  
2022. Bard College. “I was waiting for the echo of a better day”. Screening & Discussion. New York, New York.
2022. Guggenheim Works & Process and Modern Accord Depot Residency. Accord, New York.
2021. Palazzo Grassi. La Biennale di Venezia. “I was waiting for the echo of a better day”. Screenings. New York,  New York.
2021. Palazzo Grassi. La Biennale di Venezia. “David”. Screening. New York, New York.
2021. Palazzo Grassi. La Biennale di Venezia. “Dancing The Studio” with Pam Tanowitz. Performance. New York, New York.
2020. American Ballet Theatre. “David”. Film Release.
2020. Guggenheim Works & Process. “Good Night”. Film Release.
2020. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Researching the AIDS Oral History Project.
2020. “Three Deaths”. Sundance Film Festival Official Selection. Production Design by Jeremy Jacob.

PRESS

2020. Vanity Fair. “A Few Things That Actually Went Right in 2020”
2020. Fjord Review. “ABT Rising”
2020. The New York Times. “At Ballet Theater, New Videos and Signs of a New Era
2020. The Wall Street Journal. “For Screen, Not Stage”
2020. KEXP. “Chris Garneau Is Liberated From the Weight of the Past With "Not the Child"”
2020. The New York Times. “Candid Talk on Cunningham’s Company”
2020. American Songwriter. “Chris Garneau Unearths Trauma and Triumph on Fifth Album ‘The Kind,’ Reveals First Story ‘Not the Child’"
2020. Paris Review. “Sex Work, Cigarettes, and Systemic Change”
2020. The Wall Street Journal. “The Staying Inside Guide: Out of the Rotunda, Onto the Internet”
2020. The New York Times. “Where Dance Fans Can Escape From Our ‘Sci-Fi Horror’ Moment”
2018. The New York Times. “Dancing Their Friends and Heroes (and My Little Pony)”.

FILMS, SERIES, THEATRICAL and OTHER WORKS

ONGOING
“Dance And Stuff”. Weekly Podcast. Co-Created, Edited and Produced by Jeremy Jacob. With Reid Bartelme and Jack Ferver. Premiered June 30th, 2017.

2021
“Everything Is True”. Documentary Film. Direction, Editing, Sound Editing, Title Designs, and Co-Produced by Jeremy Jacob. Created with Pam Tanowitz. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. New York, New York.

2020
“Good Night”. Short Film. Direction, Director of Photography, Editing, Sound & Music, Special Effects, Production Design and Co-Written by Jeremy Jacob. Presented by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York, New York.
“David”. Short Film. Concept, Direction, Editing, Sound & Music, Production Design, and Produced by Jeremy Jacob. Presented by American Ballet Theatre. New York, New York.
“Nowhere Apparent”. Documentary & Performance Lecture. Direction, Co-Written, Photography, Editing, Sound & Music, and Produced by Jeremy Jacob. Created in collaboration with Jack Ferver. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. New York, New York. 
“Finally Unfinished”. Virtual Web Design. Designed by Jeremy Jacob. Presented in Collaboration with Pam Tanowitz at The Joyce Theater. New York, New York. 
“Not The Child”. Music Video. Concept, Direction, Editing, Production Design, Special Effects, Paper Animations, and Produced by Jeremy Jacob. For Chris Garneau. Hudson, New York.
“Now On”. Music Video. Concept, Direction, Editing, Production Design, Special Effects, Paper Animations, and Produced by Jeremy Jacob. For Chris Garneau. Hudson, New York. 
“Talk, Talk”. Short Film. Designs for Screen, Editing, Compositing, Sound & Music, Title Designs, and Produced by Jeremy Jacob. Presented by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York, New York.
“Paramodernities Live”. Six-Part Livestream Presentation. Production Design, Editing, Sound Design, Livestream Direction and Produced by Jeremy Jacob. Presented by Netta Yerushalmy and Princeton University. Princeton, New Jersey.
“Wild Place”. Artist Portrait. Direction, Photography, Editing, Sound & Music, and Produced by Jeremy Jacob. Daniel Rampulla / Chart Gallery. New York, New York. 
“Will Ryman: Dinner Party III”. Artist Portrait. Direction, Photography, Editing, Sound & Music, and Produced by Jeremy Jacob. Will Ryman / Chart Gallery. New York, New York. 
“In The Closet”. Web Series. Concept, Direction, Photography, Sound & Music, Editing, Title Designs, and Produced by Jeremy Jacob. New York, New York.

2019
“State of Desire”. Short Film. Direction, Photography, Editing, Production Design, Sound & Music, Costume Design, Special Effects/Animation, and Written by JeremyJacob. Brooklyn, New York and Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
“Dear Merce”. Short Film. Direction, Production Design, Editing, Sound & Music, Co-Written, and Produced by Jeremy Jacob. With Netta Yerushalmy. Presented by The New York Public Library. “Made At NYPL”. Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Rayner Special Collections Wing and Print Gallery.
“Three Deaths”. Short Film. Production Design by Jeremy Jacob. Directed by Jay Dockendorf. New York, New York and Orangeburg, New York.
“Desire”. A Play. Production Design and Costume Design by Jeremy Jacob. Directed by Jack Ferver. Fisher Center at Bard. Annandale-On-Hudson, New York. 
“And The Tony Nominees Are…”. 10-Part Interview Series with Tony Award Nominees. Concept, Direction, Production Design, Sound & Music, Editing and Interviews Conducted by Jeremy Jacob. ALLARTS. New York, New York. 
“The Dance And Stuff Show”. Talk Show / Web Series. Concept, Direction, Production Design, Director of Photography, Sound & Music, Graphics & Title Design, Editing, and Produced by Jeremy Jacob. LMCC. New York, New York. 
“JenMari”. Comedy Short. Directed, Co-Written, Production Design, Sound & Music, Editing, Title Design, and Produced by Jeremy Jacob. New York, New York.
“Remnants”. Artist Portrait. Direction, Photography, Editing, Sound & Music, and Produced by Jeremy Jacob. Text by Ariella Ruth. Boston, Massachusetts.
“Pam Tanowitz Wearing Reid & Harriet Design”. A Book of Photographs. Art Direction by Jeremy Jacob. Photographs by Daniel Rampulla. New York, New York. 

2018
“Everything Is Imaginable”. A Play. Production Design and Sound Design by Jeremy Jacob. Directed by Jack Ferver. New York Live Arts. New York, New York.

2016

“Winter: My Secret”. Group Exhibition: Jenn Dierdorf, Brad Parsons, and Jeremy Jacob. Cindy Rucker Gallery. New York, New York.

2015

Sun Screening Vol. II. Short Film Screening Series. Presentation of “Courting; or, An American Romance Fantasy”. Videology. Brooklyn, New York. Curated by Claudia Bitran

EDUCATION
2008. Parsons The New School for Design. BFA, Illustration.
2004. Savannah College of Art & Design. Animation.