Country: USA
Year: 2012
Duration: 45'
A young woman stands in front of a car. In the background, metropolitan details can be seen. A man whose face is half-illuminated by the sunshine; behind him, a yellow cab races by. A young couple and their child, a girl with braids, perhaps at the seaside. Intimate photographs which tell of family ties and friendships, of sunny afternoons and a precious relationship with great artists, all an expression of the season of New American Cinema.
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
“Animations of home stereo-pairs from the 60s on, cyclopean because the 3D can also be seen with one eye, and without spectacles. Oscillation produces Eternalisms: limited but ongoing, one-way movements in any direction. Flo stars, friends appear in the Kodachrome past, images of Nisi and Aza demarcate time.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, fotografia, montaggio, produttore/director, cinematography, film editing, producer
Ken Jacobs
interpreti/cast Hollis Melton, Jonas Mekas, Myrel Glick, Ernie Gehr, Jim Hoberman, Shelley Hoberman, Michael Snow, Amy Taubin, Richard Foreman, Jane Brakhage, Stan Brakhage, Flo, Nisi, Aza Jacobs
interpreti/cast Hollis Melton, Jonas Mekas, Myrel Glick, Ernie Gehr, Jim Hoberman, Shelley Hoberman, Michael Snow, Amy Taubin, Richard Foreman, Jane Brakhage, Stan Brakhage, Flo, Nisi, Aza Jacobs
