Pack 2 DVD/Blu-ray Ken Jacobs
Pack of 2 titles with films by and about the American experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs at a discounted promo price
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Ken Jacobs - From Orchard Street to The Museum of Modern Art, 2023, 98 min, réalisé par Fred Riedel
"Figure parmi les plus emblématiques de l'histoire des images en mouvement, le New-Yorkais Ken Jacobs et son épouse/ collaboratrice Flo Jacobs, se prêtent à une série d'entretiens, explorant une multitude d'extraits tirés de leur répertoire de films et de performances qui ont marqué les écrans depuis 1955 jusqu'à nos jours. Des collaborations loufoques avec Jack Smith en passant par des œuvres formalistes fondatrices et révolutionnaires, jusqu'à l'invention du Nervous System et ses Éternalismes 3D brevetés."
- Fred Riedel
"Les films dépeignent le monde. Mes repré- sentations du monde sont irréalistes et votre vigilance est requise. Mon approche est idéologique : je cherche à provoquer le doute sur les images perçues. Il est crucial de préserver votre interprétation personnelle. Je ne cherche pas à convaincre le public, mais à le divertir avec des illusions qu'il identifie comme telles."
- Ken Jacobs
"Mêlant un entretien intime et révélateur avec Ken et Flo Jacobs (sa compagne dans la vie comme dans l'art) à une sélection généreuse de séquences tirées de son œuvre cinématographique aux multiples facettes, le film de Riedel met en lumière non seulement le talent artistique de Jacobs, mais aussi sa curiosité intellectuelle sans bornes, son caractère unique et son éloquence remarquable mais peu reconnue."
- Anthology Film Archives
BONUS FILMS by Ken Jacobs
- The Death of P’Town 1961, 6 min, color Binghamton
- My India 1969-70, 23 min, color silent
- Disorient Express 1996, 30 min, b/w silent
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 2023, 9 min, color, original music by JG Thirlwell
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Ken Jacobs Collection Vol. 1 - Kino
Ken Jacobs is one of the most wildly creative and influential film artists and teachers in the history of the medium, and Kino Classics is proud to present this two-disc selection from his vast body of work (additional titles will be available digitally via Kino Now). Jacobs, born in Brooklyn, NY in 1933, studied Abstract Expressionism with Hans Hofmann before turning to filmmaking – where he became a prolific member of the underground scene, along with contemporaries Jonas Mekas, Jack Smith, and Stan Brakhage. His early films use NYC as a poetic landscape (Orchard Street) and as a setting for Smith’s carnivalesque performances (Little Stabs at Happiness and Blonde Cobra – both preserved by Anthology Film Archives). Jacobs then started experimenting with found footage, expanding a five-minute fragment of Billy Bitzer’s Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son to feature length (restored in 2K by Museum of Modern Art), and went on to embrace digital tools - using stroboscopic effects to turn silent shorts and Victorian stereoscopic photographs into mind-expanding 3D investigations (Capitalism: Child Labor). He continues to push the boundaries of the art form – as you can see with his hypnotically abstract Movie That Invites Pausing (2021). In addition to his landmark films, which have been honored by the American Film Institute, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation, Jacobs (along with his wife Flo) founded the free film school Millennium Film Workshop, and he also helped create SUNY Binghamton’s experimental Department of Cinema in 1969, where he became a Distinguished Professor and influenced generations of artists and scholars.
Warning: CAPITALISM: CHILD LABOR, CAPITALISM: SLAVERY and MOVIE THAT
INVITES PAUSING include throbbing light not for persons afflicted with
epilepsy.
The Films:
DISC 1:
Orchard Street (1955, 27 minutes)
The Whirled (1961, 19 minutes)
Little Stabs at Happiness (1963, 15 minutes)
Blonde Cobra (1963, 34 minutes)
The Sky Socialist (1963-‘64/2019, 96 minutes)
Window (1964, 12 minutes)
DISC 2:
The Sky Socialist: Environs and Outtakes (1964-‘66/2019, 47 minutes)
Tom Tom the Piper's Son (1969, 115 minutes)
The Georgetown Loop (1996, 11 minutes)
A Tom Tom Chaser (2002, 11 minutes)
Capitalism: Child Labor (2006, 14 minutes)
Capitalism: Slavery (2006, 3 minutes)
Movie that Invites Pausing (2021, 20 minutes)
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