The Moving Image Source Calendar is a selective international guide to retrospectives, screenings, festivals, and exhibitions.
Descriptions are drawn from the calendars of the presenting venues.
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The Nervous Art of Ken Jacobs
February 6-8, 2009 at
Harvard Film Archive
, Cambridge, MA
One of the founders of the American avant-garde cinema, Ken Jacobs (b. 1933) has been working ceaselessly and boundlessly in film, video and moving image performance for over 50 years. Jacobs began working in a mode of guerrilla cinema, shooting anarchic and exuberant-yet also politically astute-theatrics in the streets of his native New York in the early 1950s, including a number of prescient and Beat-infused works-Little Stabs at Happiness, the shorts included in The Whirled-made with a very young Jack Smith. With director Ken Jacobs and Flo Jacobs in Person.
Featured Works:
The Whirled (1956-63); Little Stabs at Happiness (1958-60); Window (1964); Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896 (1990); Krypton is Doomed (2005); Capitalism: Child Labor (2006); Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World (2006-07, pictured)
Program information:Related Articles:
Films That Tell Time by Tom Gunning posted Feb. 06, 2009
