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Ken Jacobs

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Ken Jacobs (born May 25 1933) is an American experimental filmmaker. He is the director of (1969, USA), which was admitted to the National Film Registry in 2007, and Star Spangled to Death (2004, USA), a nearly seven hour film comprised largely of found footage.

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  • Ken Jacobs: 3 features and a short

    This boxed-set DVD anthology brings together three of legendary filmmaker Ken Jacobs' major recent works. Jacobs explores depth perception and the act of viewing through the application of digital effects and 3D techniques to archival films.

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  • Optic Antics: The Cinema of Ken Jacobs

    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.

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  • Ken Jacobs in 3 Dimensions!

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    Return to the scene of the crime (Ken Jacobs, 2008)

    Ken Jacobs in 3 Dimensions!
    May 13-19. Book launch May 14th
    Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue New York, NY 10003

    As the 3-D craze continues to sweep through our nation’s multiplexes, we here at Anthology have seen fit to focus attention on an artist – one of the giants of avant-garde cinema – who has been exploring the possibilities of three-dimensional filmmaking since long before Hollywood dusted the process off and rebooted it for the purposes of high-powered distraction. Ken Jacobs’s experiments with the possibilities of illusionary depth stretch all the way back to the late 1960s, and in the last decade he has devoted himself to exploring the phenomenon, creating dozens of moving-image works, both shorts and features, that utilize various methods of producing three-dimensional effects. Standing in stark contrast to Hollywood’s efforts to squeeze some (any) kind of response out of jaded moviegoers benumbed by decades of big-budget spectacles, Jacobs’s profound fascination with the idea of filmic depth speaks to a commitment to expand our senses and our conception of the movie-watching experience – a conviction that the cinema can foster expanded perception, not just sensation.

    This series offers a very rare chance to experience an exhilarating variety of Ken Jacobs’s utterly original 3-D work. Featuring three nights of live Nervous Magic Lantern performances, a revival of a 35mm slide-based piece from the mid-1980s, and a host of short and feature-length 3-D pieces from throughout his career, these shows will survey a body of work which forms a conception of 3-D filmmaking undreamed of in the multiplexes!

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  • Indiscretions - Avant-Garde Film, Video, and Feminism

    Indiscretions follows the path of U.S. avant-garde film and video from the underground of the 1960s to the academy of the 1980s. Patricia Mellencamp traces and charts the intersections of Lacanian psychoanalysis and the desiring male subject, Roland Barthes and texts of pleasure, Michel Foucault and the disciplinary society, the grotesque body and Mikhail Bakhtin, the rhizomatic alogic of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and the female subject of feminist film theory.

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  • Close-up: Histories of the Avant-Garde Part IV

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    Close-up: Histories of the Avant-Garde Part IV
    February 23th 2009, 20h
    The Working Men’s Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, E2 6NB, London. Ticket: £5/£3 Close-Up members
    Doors open at 7.45 pm
    Presented by Close-Up and The Dog Movement

     

    Five American masters all explore dailiness, film as a stage for performance, and most importantly the possibilities of using music with equal importance to image in tonight’s screening.

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  • Cinémathèque française: Ken Jacobs performance

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    KJ_CFCinémathèque française: Ken Jacobs performance
    Saturday, January 16th  2010, Salle Henri Langlois
    51, rue de Bercy, 75012 Paris, France

    Major artist of the experimental scene in New York, Ken Jacobs is the author of numerous films, including Tom Tom the Piper's Son, an exploration of a film from 1905, and the pamphlet on U.S. policy after the war, Star Spangled to Death.

    Along with his movies, Ken Jacobs has created a significant number of performances under the banner of what he's called 'The Nervous System'. Ken Jacobs invents his own instruments and manipulates the projection during the performance. He creates rhythmic effects, getting a depth or relief never achieved before. His performances challenge traditional perceptions of time, space and image, disrupting and disorienting the viewer.

    Ken Jacobs in the preamble to his performance will present a 3D movie made from images of one of the pioneers of cinema, Louis Aimé Augustin Leprince (1842-1890): Gift of Fire. Nineteen Obscure Frames That Changed The World.

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  • Menken, Jacobs, selected for film preservation

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    menken_garden.jpgThe Library of Congress (USA) has announced its National Film Registry selections for the year 2007. Among the 25 films selected for preservation for being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant are experimental classics Marie Menken's Glimpse of the Garden (1957) and Ken Jacobs' Tom, Tom the Piper’s Son (1969-71). Last year's selection included the films Early Abstractions #1-5,7,10 (Harry Smith, 1939-56) and Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania  (Jonas Mekas, 1971-72).

    Glimpse of the Garden (1957)
    Though Marie Menken’s volatile marriage to Willard Mass served as the inspiration for playwright Edward Albee in his 1962 play, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” her surprisingly joyful and simple films rate among the more accessible works of avant-garde filmmakers. The beautifully lyrical “Glimpse of the Garden” is a serendipitous visual tour of a flower garden set to a soundtrack of bird calls.

    Tom, Tom the Piper’s Son (1969-71)
    Ken Jacobs’ landmark avant-garde film reverently re-photographs an early cinema short of the fairy tale song to explore the parameters of film art.  A “structuralist film” masterpiece, Jacobs uses techniques ranging from slow and studied examinations of individual paper print images to probing experiments in manipulation of motion and light.

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  • LFF 2007: Avant-Garde Weekend

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    lff07.jpgThis year's edition of the London Film Festival brings us again its Avant garde Weekend, Experimenta. During the last weekend of October we'll be able to see several film programmes, curated by Mark Webber, on themes such as identity, poetic perception of nature and the revisitation of the past. Highlights include a new works by Ken Jacobs, Peter Hutton and Robert Beavers, newly restored versions of Carolee Schneemann's films Fuses and Kitch’s Last Meal and a practical workshop with David Gatten 'on the use of text in 16mm filmmaking'.

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  • London Film Festival - Experimenta Avant-Garde Weekend

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    London FIlm FestivalThe 50th London Film Festival will present this year its fourth Experimenta Avant-Garde Weekend, from October 28 to 30. The event will center on the works of Jack Smith with the screening of Mary Jordan's docoumentary Jack Smith & The Destruction Of Atlantis, and Kenneth Anger, who will present his recently restored films.

    Other highlights include new films by Nathaniel Dorsky, Phil Solomon, Ken Jacobs and Matthias Müller; the screening of restored prints of Jodorowsky's La montaña sagrada and Vittorio de Seta's documentary shorts. 

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