Ken Jacobs
Ken Jacobs Collection Vol. 1
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Add rightsFormat 2 x Blu-ray Interzone
Original format 16mm
Year 1955-2021
Language(s) English
Artist(s) Ken Jacobs
Author(s) James Lewis Hoberman
Booklet English
Running time 424 min
Films
ORCHARD STREET (1955) 27'
THE WHIRLED (1961) 19'
LITTLE STABS AT HAPPINESS (1963) 15'
BLONDE COBRA (1963) 34'
THE SKY SOCIALIST (1963-'64/2019) 96'
WINDOW (1964) 12'
THE SKY SOCIALIST: ENVIRONS AND OUTTAKES (1964-'66/2019) 47'
TOM TOM THE PIPER'S SON (1969) 115'
THE GEORGETOWN LOOP (1996) 11'
A TOM TOM CHASER (2002) 11'
CAPITALISM: CHILD LABOR (2006) 14'
CAPITALISM: SLAVERY (2006) 3'
MOVIE THAT INVITES PAUSING (2021) 20'
Description
Ken Jacobs, born in Brooklyn in 1933, is one of the most creative and influential experimental filmmakers in cinema history. Kino Classics presents this two-disc selection from his vast body of work. After studying abstract expressionism with Hans Hofmann, he became a prolific member of the underground scene alongside Jonas Mekas, Jack Smith, and Stan Brakhage. His early films use New York as a poetic landscape (Orchard Street) and as a setting for Smith's performances (Little Stabs at Happiness, Blonde Cobra). He then experimented with archival footage, transforming a five-minute fragment of Billy Bitzer's Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son into a feature film, and later adopted digital tools to create hypnotic 3D explorations (Capitalism: Child Labor, Movie That Invites Pausing). His films have been honored by the American Film Institute, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. With his wife Flo, he founded the free Millennium Film Workshop cinema school and participated in creating the experimental film department at SUNY Binghamton in 1969, where he influenced generations of artists.
Warning: CAPITALISM: CHILD LABOR, CAPITALISM: SLAVERY and MOVIE THAT INVITES PAUSING contain flashing lights not recommended for people with epilepsy.