Country: USA
Year: 2008
Duration: 93'
Jacobs returns to work on the body
of the film Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son
(1905), which had already been the basis
of his 1969 film of the same name, to
reflect on the infinite narrative potential
of one single frame. Digital technology
permits distortions of the image and the
manipulation of the color, highlighting
the hundreds of motions carried out by
the many people in a Brueghel-like scene
and creating an abstract ballet that
is open to all forms of interpretation.
Biography
film director
Ken Jacobs
Ken Jacobs (New York, 1933) debuted as a director in 1955 and in 1956 studied painting with Hans Hoffmann. Between 1966 and 1968, he directed the Millennium Film Workshop and in 1969 he founded the film faculty at the State University of New York at Binghamton. In 1996 the MoMA of New York dedicated a retrospective to him, and in 2004 he won the award for experimental film from the Los Angeles Film Critics’ Association. Between 2007 and 2009, the Torino Film Festival presented a number of his films, including Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son, Return to the Scene of the Crime and The Scenic Route. This year the festival also presents Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman (Waves).
FILMOGRAFIA
Orchard Street (cm, 1955), Star Spangled to Death (1957-59), Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son (1969), Spaghetti Aza (1976), Jerry Takes a Back Seat, Then Passes Out of the Picture (cm, 1987), The Subcinema (1990), A Tom Tom Chaser (cm, 2002), Capitalism: Slavery (cm, 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), Blankets for Indians (mm, 2012), Cyclopean 3D: Life with a Beautiful Woman (mm, 2012).
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura, fotografia, montaggio, produttore/director, story, screenplay, cinematography, film editing, producer Ken Jacobs
musica/music Malcolm Goldstein
musica/music Malcolm Goldstein