Optic antics: the cinema of ken jacobs

This volume gathers many of the best known writers on the avant-garde from three continents to write on the cinema of Ken Jacobs, who is arguably the mostimportant living experimental filmmaker. 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 dedicatedentirely to him. It includes essays by prominent film scholars along with photographs and personal pieces from artists and critics, all of which testify tothe extraordinary variety and influence of his accomplishments. Anyone interested in cinema or experimental arts will be well-rewarded by a greateracquaintance with the genius, the innovation, and the optical antics of Ken Jacobs. INDICE: Introduction: Ken Jacobs-A Half-Century of Cinema "A Panorama Compounded of Great Human Suffering and Ecstatic Filmic Representation": Texts On Ken Jacobs Texts On Ken Jacobs A Mischievous Little-Boy Revolution: <i>The Whirled</i> Ken Jacobs, Moralist <i>The Sky Socialist</i>: Film as an Instrument of Thought, Cinema as an Augury of Redemption Bigger Than Life: Between Ken Jacobs and Nicholas Ray Acts of Delay: The Play between Stillness and Motion in <i>Tom, Tom the Piper's Son</i> The Piper's Son: Content and Performance in the Films of Ken Jacobs Ken Jacobs' <i>Two Wrenching Departures</i> Photo Essay Flo Talks Recycling, Visual Study, Expanded Theory - Ken Jacobs, Theorist, or: The Long Song of the <i>Sons</i> "Avant-Garde" Filmmaker: Ken Jacobs Ken Jacobs and the Robert Flaherty Seminar Nervous Ken: <i>XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX</i> and after Jacobs' Bergsonism Ken Jacobs and Ecstatic Abstraction Busby Berkeley, Ken Jacobs: A Precarious, Extravagant, Populist, and Constructivist Cinema Untitled (for Ken) Theories of Moving Pictures: Ken Jacobs after Hans Hofmann I Owe Ken Jacobs Professor Ken Annotated Filmography and Performance History Bibliography

• ISBN: 978-0-19-538498-7
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 312
• Fecha Publicación: 07/07/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés