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Ken Jacobs

Ken Jacobs (nacido el 25 de Mayo de 1933) es un cineasta experimental estadounidense. Es el autor de (1969), que fue incluida en el National Film Registry en 2007, y de Star Spangled to Death (2004), un filme de casi 7 horas compuesto casi exclusivamente de metraje encontrado.

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Courtisane Festival 2014

By Marcos Ortega on Dom, 30/03/2014 - 11:35

In its yearly festival, Courtisane 2014 (April 2-6, Ghent, Belgium) presents a kaleidoscopic mosaic of styles, media, gestures, languages and emotions; a patchwork of recent and historical works that share an insatiable hunger for experimentation, a personal signature, and a sense of resistance. The main core of this year's programme will include recents and classic works from artists such as Leslie Thornton, Peter Emmanuel Goldman, Laure Prouvost, Ben Rivers & Ben Russell, Laida Lertxundi, Gary Beydler, Bruce Baillie, Nathaniel Dorsky, Alexandra Cuesta, Morgan Fisher, Camille Henrot, Gregory Markopoulos, Robert Beavers, Olivier Dekegel, Sarah Vanagt, Black Audio Film Collective and Larry Gottheim among many others.

This edition's "Artist in Focus" is Ken Jacobs, who will be the protagonist of several dedicated screenings and a performance with composer and visual artist Aki Onda. The programme "Across the Margins, Beyond the Pale: Re-imagining the post-colonial" will include films by Kidlat Tahimik, Djibril Diop Mambéty, Med Hondo, Carlos Mayolo & Luis Ospina, Nelson Pereira dos Santos and Glauber Rocha.

The festival will also feature several musical and performatic events with Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda, Julius Eastman (works for 4 pianos), Wanda Group, Christina Vantzou, Angela Melitopoulos & Bettina Knaup and Ayreen Anastas & Rene Gabri.

Fechas:
De Miércoles, Abril 2, 2014 (Todo el día) hasta Domingo, Abril 6, 2014 (Todo el día)
Carte Blanche: Ken Jacobs

By Marcos Ortega on Jue, 25/04/2013 - 09:30
Carte Blanche: Ken Jacobs
May 2–5, 2013
MoMA
11 West 53 Street, New York, NY 10019|

As one of the founding fathers of American experimental cinema, Ken Jacobs’s impact cannot be overstated. He is a pioneer who, after more than 50 years as a filmmaker, remains as innovative and productive as ever. Correction: at 80 years old he’s more productive than ever, having enthusiastically embraced digital filmmaking. Enormously influential as both a teacher and a font of radical filmmaking ideas, he has prepared several generations of teachers, writers, filmmakers, and discerning audience members to actively engage, with an equal amount of open-minded awe and healthy skepticism, with a media-saturated world. A frequent guest at the Museum—and the subject of a 1996 MoMA retrospective—Jacobs continues to surprise us with amazing inventions that mine the unlimited possibilities of creating with light and moving images. For this installment of MoMA’s Carte Blanche screening series, Jacobs presents films from MoMA’s collection that have influenced and inspired him, alongside selections of his own work—film prints, electronic media pieces, Nervous Magic Lantern performances—that represent key moments in his artistic life. The series also includes the world premiere of Jacobs’s four-part Joys of Waiting for the Broadway Bus cycle of digital works.

All film notes were written by Ken Jacobs, unless otherwise noted.
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Eventos
Close-Up: Star Spangled to Death

By Marcos Ortega on Lun, 08/04/2013 - 16:01
Close-Up: Star Spangled to Death
Sunday 28 April 2013, 13h
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club
42-44 Pollard Row London E2 6NB

- Star Spangled to Death (Ken Jacobs, 2004, 402 min, Colour & B/W, DP)

We are very excited to present a rare screening of Ken Jacobs's epic, six-and-half-hour "perverse reach for the intolerable" Star Spangled to Death.

"Star Spangled to Death is an epic film shot for hundreds of dollars! combining found-films with my own more-or-less staged filming, it pictures a stolen and dangerously sold-out America, allowing examples of popular culture to self-indict. Racial and religious insanity, monopolization of wealth and the purposeful dumbing down of citizens and addiction to war oppose a Beat playfulness.

A handful of artists costumed and performing unconvincingly appeal to audience imagination and understanding to complete the picture. Jack Smith's pre-Flaming Creatures performance as The Spirit Not Of Life But Of Living (the movie has raggedly cosmic pretensions), celebrating Suffering (rattled impoverished artist Jerry Sims) at the crux of sentient existence, is a visitation of the divine." – K.J.
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Eventos
Conversations at the Edge: Wavelengths, in the blink of an eye

By Marcos Ortega on Lun, 18/03/2013 - 18:33
Conversations at the Edge: Wavelengths, in the blink of an eye
Thursday, March 21 2013, 18h
Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N. State, Chicago, IL, USA
Curator Andréa Picard in person

Named for but also infinitely inspired by Michael Snow’s 1967 masterpiece, Wavelength, the Toronto International Film Festival’s avant-garde program presents films and videos that defy convention, suggest alternate ways of thinking, and sometimes re-emerge from a distant past in order to comment on the present. Curated by Andréa Picard, who has curated Wavelengths since 2006, this program is a Wavelengths compendium featuring a number of works from the 2012 line-up (including Nathaniel Dorsky’s August and After, Ernie Gehr’s Auto-Collider XV and Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan’s View from the Acropolis which were all cited in the New York Times’ best films of the year wrap-up and screen as Chicago premieres) and highlights from previous editions, including a 35mm restored print from La Cinémathèque française of Henri Storck’s too-rarely seen 1929 Surrealist gem, Pour vos beaux yeux. Blinking is not encouraged!
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Eventos
Glorious Catastrophes

By Marcos Ortega on Mié, 12/09/2012 - 16:06
Glorious Catastrophes
Wednesday, 31 October 2012, 20:30h
Beursschouwburg, A. Ortsstraat 20-28, 1000 Brussels
In collaboration with Courtisane

“A seriousness that fails”: this is how Susan Sontag described the essence of “camp”, this transient mixture of excess, fantasy, passion and naivety that has taken up a distinctive place in the cultural firmament since the 1960’s. Andy Warhol, who emphatically responded to this trend with his film Camp (1965), saw it differently: he was rather interested in the idea of failure itself, a failure that has to be taken seriously. After all the majority of Warhol’s films consists of observations of people in and as image, who in all their fallibility reveal a genuine authenticity and startling vulnerability. Two characters who play lead roles in Camp also take up a central place in this film programme: Paul Swan and Jack Smith. Warhol’s self-titled portrait of Swan, a dancer and actor who was once lauded as the “most beautiful man in the world” is an as ruthless as affectionate observation of a man who alternately falls in and out of the role of his lifetime. The area of tension between playing and being, playful fantasy and harsh reality, is also the arena of Jack Smith, the “enfant terrible” of the post war American underground scene. The early films Smith made in collaboration with his then confidant Ken Jacobs manifest a brutal beauty and audacious hedonism, unleashing a bewildering vitality not despite but because of their deliberate “trash” esthetics. Between innocence and nonsense, order and disorder, catastrophe and utopia: what the films in this programme have in common, are forms of expression that thrive in relation to their own failing.

With film works by Andy Warhol, Ken Jacobs, Jack Smith
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Eventos
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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Promedio: 3.5 (2 votos)
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Libros
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Oxford University Press
A Critical Cinema 3: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers
A Critical Cinema 3 continues Scott MacDonald's compilation of personal interviews and public discussions with major contributors to independent filmmaking and film awareness."A Critical Cinema 3 continues Scott MacDonald's compilation of personal interviews and public discussions with major contributors to independent filmmaking and film awareness. An informative exchange with Amos Vogel, whose Cinema 16 Society drew American filmgoers into a broader sense of film history, is followed by interviews reflecting a wide range of approaches to filmmaking.

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Sin votos (todavía)
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Libros
Editor:
University of California Press
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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Promedio: 2.7 (3 votos)
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DVD
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Electronic Arts Intermix
Ken Jacobs - Tom, Tom, The Piper's Son & A Tom Tom Chaser
Ghosts! Cine-recordings of the vivacious doings of persons long dead. Preservation of their memory ceases at the edges of the frame. One face passes "behind" another on the two-dimensional screen. Seven infinitely complex cine-tapestries indicate a narrat

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Promedio: 3 (2 votos)
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DVD
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Self-published
Ken Jacobs - Let There Be Whistleblowers & Ontic Antics Starring
Originally a Nervous System work (presented live using a special film-projection contrivance that wife Flo and I would set up). The 1929 Laurel and Hardy short Berth Marks, filmed twice, with and without sound, is our glorious take-off point. In some ways

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Promedio: 4.3 (3 votos)
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DVD
Editor:
Self-published