Event

This screening includes Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World

Still image from Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World.

Date and time:: Mon, Dec 7 - Mon, Dec 14
2020, From 5–6:32 pm
Runtime:: 1 hr 32 min
Cost:: Free, no ticket required

Only those registered for the December 11 Jorgensen Guest Filmmaker Program with Ken and Florence Jacobs will have access to the film.

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Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York.

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

Rating:: Not rated
Year Released:: 2006
Format:: Virtual
Genres:
Metadata:: Directed by Ken Jacobs

Ken Jacobs writes: “Razzle Dazzle is an early Edison shot cut off at its head and tail and along its four sides from the continuity of events like any camera-shot from a bygone day; no, like any camera-shot, immediately producing an abstraction. This abstraction pictures a great spinning maypole-like device lined with young passengers dipping and lifting as it circles through space. They look out—from their place at the start of the 20th century—with a remarkable variety of expressions, giddy to pensive. We observe them but of course they see nothing of this, our America, hopelessly gone to rot, its mountaintops leveled for extraction of coal, rivers and air polluted, crisscrossed everywhere with property-lines; they don't see its prisons or the corporations leaning in from their off-shore tax-bases to see what more they can take. Early stereopticon images also appear, digitally manipulated to reveal their depths. A digital shadow falls upon the scene and yet, grim as things get, as our crimes and failures then and now commingle, the movie proceeds with a cubist/abstract-expressionist zest.” Contains flashing imagery.

To view more than 200 videos and films by Jacobs, you can access them on the Ken Jacobs Vimeo channel.