Optic Antics
The Cinema of Ken Jacobs
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 7 July 2011
- ISBN 9780195384987
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 178x251x17 mm
- Weight 567 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 48 illustrations 0
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Short description:
This volume gathers many of the best known writers on the avant-garde from three continents to write on the cinema of Ken Jacobs, who is arguably the most important living experimental filmmaker.
MoreLong description:
Ken Jacobs has been making cinema for more than fifty years. Along with over thirty film and video works, he has created an array of shadow plays, sound pieces, installations, and magic lantern and film performances that have transformed how we look at and think about moving images. He is part of the permanent collections at MoMA and the Whitney, and his work has been celebrated in Europe and the U.S. While his importance is well-recognized, this is the first volume dedicated entirely to him. It includes essays by prominent film scholars along with photographs and personal pieces from artists and critics, all of which testify to the extraordinary variety and influence of his accomplishments. Anyone interested in cinema or experimental arts will be well-rewarded by a greater acquaintance with the genius, the innovation, and the optical antics of Ken Jacobs.
Above all else, Optic Antics has the rare distinction - characteristic of Jacob's filmmaking itself - of being at once philosophically intricate and ludicrously fun.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Ken Jacobs-A Half-Century of Cinema
"A Panorama Compounded of Great Human Suffering and Ecstatic Filmic Representation": Texts On Ken Jacobs
Texts On Ken Jacobs
A Mischievous Little-Boy Revolution: The Whirled
Ken Jacobs, Moralist
The Sky Socialist: Film as an Instrument of Thought, Cinema as an Augury of Redemption
Bigger Than Life: Between Ken Jacobs and Nicholas Ray
Acts of Delay: The Play between Stillness and Motion in Tom, Tom the Piper's Son
The Piper's Son: Content and Performance in the Films of Ken Jacobs
Ken Jacobs' Two Wrenching Departures
Photo Essay
Flo Talks
Recycling, Visual Study, Expanded Theory - Ken Jacobs, Theorist, or: The Long Song of the Sons
"Avant-Garde" Filmmaker: Ken Jacobs
Ken Jacobs and the Robert Flaherty Seminar
Nervous Ken: XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX and after
Jacobs' Bergsonism
Ken Jacobs and Ecstatic Abstraction
Busby Berkeley, Ken Jacobs: A Precarious, Extravagant, Populist, and Constructivist Cinema
Untitled (for Ken)
Theories of Moving Pictures: Ken Jacobs after Hans Hofmann
I Owe Ken Jacobs
Professor Ken
Annotated Filmography and Performance History
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