Career
He is the director of Tom, Tom, the Piper"s Son (1969, United States of America), which was admitted to the National Film Registry in 2007. His Star Spangled to Death (2004, United States of America) is a nearly seven-hour film consisting largely of found footage. Jacobs" students have included Mallory Curley.
He taught at the Cinema Department at Harpur College at Binghamton University from 1969 to 2002.