ANAGLYPH TOM (TOM WITH PUFFY CHEEKS)
ANAGLYPH TOM (TOM WITH PUFFY CHEEKS)
USA 2008 (35mm, 118', b/n_e_colore)
regia, soggetto,
sceneggiatura,
fotografia, montaggio,
produttore/director, story,
screenplay, cinematography,
film editing, producer
Ken Jacobs
musica/music
Michael Schumacher,
Nisi Jacobs,
Malcolm Goldstein
ANAGLYPH TOM (TOM WITH PUFFY CHEEKS)
“The real subject of Anaglyph Tom (Tom With Puffy Cheeks) is depthperception
itself. Our beloved performers from the 1905 Tom, Tom, the
Piper’s Son again encapsulate human absurdity for our amusement
but this time in entirely illusionary 3-D. They step from – and back into
– the screen surface. This is cosmic play with all strings pulled.”
Ken Jacobs
Ken Jacobs (New York, 1933) started
making films in 1955 and in 1956 he
was a painting student of Hans
Hoffmann. From 1966 to 1968 he
created and directed The Millennium
Film Workshop in New York City; in
1969 he founded the film department
at the State University of New York in
Binghamton where he taught until
2003. In 1994 he won the Maya Deren
Award and in 1996 his work was shown
in a film retrospective in the Museum
of Modern Art in New York. In 2004
won the Experimental/Independent
Film/Video Award of Los Angeles Film
Critics Association with Star Spangled
to Death (1957-1959). Return to the
Scene of the Crime (2008) premiered
at Louvre Museum in Paris.
FILMOGRAPHY
(Updated to the last partecipation to TFF)
Orchard Street (cm, 1955), Star Spangled to Death (1957-59), Airshaft (cm, 1967), Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son (1969), Spaghetti Aza (1976), Jerry Takes a Back Seat, Then Passes Out of the Picture (cm, 1987), Two Wrenching Departures (1989), The Subcinema (1990), New York Ghetto Fish Market 1903 (1993), A Tom Tom Chaser (cm,
2002), Keeping an Eye on Stan (2003), Capitalism: Child Labor (cm, 2006), Capitalism: Slavery (cm, 2006), Two Wrenching Departures (2006), Razzle Dazzle - The Lost World (2007), The Scenic Route (cm, 2008), Return to the Scene of the Crime (2008), Anaglyph Tom (Tom With Puffy Cheeks) (2008).
Wednesday 18th November, at 20.00, Massimo 3
Waves
Ken Jacobs presents his last work, Anaglyph Tom
Stupid glasses
Very intelligent people accuse of stupidity these glasses for the 3D. The possibility we have of receiving through these glasses two different images from the same screen, making them converge in our eyes giving the possibility of a stereoscopic image, is all but a stupid thing.
Passion for Tom
In 1969 I was conquered by Tom Tom the Piper’s son. This movie was shot in 1905 New York’s Lower Manhattan, in the market area. The plot is very simple: Tom stole a pig in the market and is followed by a many characters. Actually when I saw it for the first time I didn’t followed the story at all, I found simply fantastic the fact of seeing the people running. I fell in love with this narrative delirium. Likewise it happens to me to get really bored watching movies complete from the narrative point of view.
Pictorial 3D
Don’t expect to be dipped into stereoscopy, it’s not a modern 3D, nothing is going to come against you. My inspiration is painting and the reflection on the space done by vanguardistic movements like the cubism. It’s a delicate but really tense depth.
