Screening

Virtual Event

This screening includes Ken and Florence Jacobs

Still image from Ken and Florence Jacobs.

Date and time:: Fri, Dec 11, 2020, From 7–8:15 pm
Runtime:: 1 hr 15 min
Cost:: Free, no ticket required

Filmmakers Ken and Florence Jacobs are scheduled to be present for a virtual conversation and interactive Q&A moderated by IU Media School Associate Professor Joan Hawkins.

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Series: IU Cinema Virtual Screening Room, Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Series, Ken Jacobs: Little Stabs at Happiness, Underground Film Series

Format:: Virtual
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Ken Jacobs is an experimental filmmaker, who, along with Stan Brakhage, Jonas Mekas, Maya Deren and others, helped spearhead the American avant-garde film movement. His impressive filmography spans more than 60 years and 45 films, utilizing just about every experimental technique imaginable. In the ’60s, he helped redefine the notion of domestic (home) movies, and along with it, domestic space—pioneering work that expanded the parameters of art cinema, and also, coincidentally, the gender expectations of male artists. Jacobs has also experimented with found footage, creating such memorable works as Star Spangled to Death, a nearly seven-hour epic charting an alternative U.S. history. Most recently, he has been reformatting, reworking, and altering silent films to give illusions of depth, creating experimental, heavily stroboscopic abstract cinema, and 3D. At every stage of his career, Jacobs has sought to push the technology as far as it can go and to challenge his audiences to think about politics, gender, class, race, documentary, and movies differently.

To view more than 200 videos and films by Jacobs—including Star Spangled to Death, which was scheduled to screen at IU Libraries Moving Image Archive in April 2020—you can access them on the Ken Jacobs Vimeo channel.