Country: USA
Year: 2009
Duration: 18'
EXCERPT FROM
THE SKY SOCIALIST STRATIFIED
“A digital visit in 2009 to where we, Flo and I, had been in 1964/1965.
I was entering my thirties but Flo, my child-bride, was turning twenty-three.
I then filmed The Sky Socialist, a sunny feature during the time of US assault
upon the Vietnamese people. The purpose of cinema as I understood it
then was to lie, in order to make history bearable. The lie, however, was to be
obvious enough so as to allude to the truth; film was a lie that invited seeing
through, it was like religion but with a more of a wink.”
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
Olivier Messiaen, Michael
Schumacher
sceneggiatura, fotografia,
montaggio,
produttore/director, story,
screenplay, cinematography,
film editing, producer
Ken Jacobs
musica/music
Olivier Messiaen, Michael
Schumacher
