A l'occasion d'un séminaire à l'école de l'Art Institute of Chicago, en 1970-71, le cinéaste commente l'oeuvre de grands noms du cinéma : Georges Méliès, David W. Griffith, Carl Th. Dreyer, et Sergueï Eisenstein. Le temps de quatre biographies poétiques,

Views from Lookout Mountain is the first book to survey the films and visual art works of one of Los Angeles' most exceptional artists.

Without J.X. Williams, the face of contemporary cinema would not be the same. His shadowy influence turns up in Tarantino, Scorsese, Kubrick, and even Godard again and again like a bad penny. Despite the best efforts of Hollywood to keep its most notoriou

Ken Jacobs has been making cinema for more than fifty years. Along with over thirty film and video works, he has created an array of shadow plays, sound pieces, installations, and magic lantern and film performances that have transformed how we look at and think about moving images. He is part of the permanent collections at MoMA and the Whitney, and his work has been celebrated in Europe and the U.S. While his importance is well-recognized, this is the first volume dedicated entirely to him.