Seeking the Monkey King
Ken Jacobs • 39m
Ken Jacobs • United States • 2011 • An investigation of the space between two and three dimensions.
In Jacobs’s words, “The film could have well been called Kicking and Screaming but that only describes me in the process of making it, questioning its taste. Once the message kicked in it overrode all objections. The piece demanded J.G.Thirlwell's music, normally way too overtly expressive for me as most of my stuff comes out of painting and is also to be absorbed in silence. Who will even notice visual innovation now, or what's happening with time? Determining a place between two and three dimensions, pushing time to take on substance, is what I do. Seeking the Monkey King is a reversion to my mid-twenties and that sense of horror that drove the making of Star Spangled Death.”
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The Georgetown Loop
Ken Jacobs • United States • 1996 • Per Jacobs, "The first landscape film deserving of an X-rating."
Jacobs manipulates The Georgetown Loop (Colorado), archival footage shot in 1903 of a train that passes by the town of Georgetown, Colorado, near the Rocky Mountains. The mountain vista is mirro...
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The Sky Socialist
Ken Jacobs • United States • 1968 • Ken Jacobs' story of impossible love.
Ken Jacobs's most elusive and mysterious film is at once an allegory of movie-making, a demonstration of 8mm versatility, and a celebration of a now-vanished neighborhood beneath the Brooklyn Bridge.
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The Sky Socialist: Environs and Outakes
Ken Jacobs • United States • 2019
Additional footage from Jacobs’s elusive film The Sky Socialist.
