Country: USA
Year: 2012
Duration: 57'
The crowded streets of New York, the traffic, the noise, the stoplights, the usual ongoing construction work, and the usual daring cyclists. But this time everyone is going in the same direction, the shared objective of the people flocking the streets is to join the Occupy Wall Street protest, a peaceful and positive protest. Even if everybody doesn’t seem to see it the same way.
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).
Declaration
film director
“A 3D movie of water (the fountain in City Hall Park) interrupted by thousands of New Yorkers marching down Broadway to join the Occupy Wall Street protest. A cheery upbeat crowd, many carry children or have children in hand, Mayor Bloomberg brings down the law on them; what he calls his ‘army.’ Thousands of cops on overtime swarm the streets, hundreds of police vehicles roll by in a great display of municipal bullying. Rights of peaceful protest? Forget it. I try to attend to my water abstractions but even they begin to reflect the air of menace.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, fotografia, montaggio, produttore/director, story, cinematography, film editing, producer
Ken Jacobs
