PENNY W. STAMPS SPEAKER SERIES

March 22, 2007

Ken Jacobs

Space/Time and Worries

For more than forty years, director, cinematographer, actor and master of the avante garde Ken Jacobs, has engaged in an aesthetic, social, and physiological critique of projected images. For Jacobs, cinema has become "a concentration on the computer screen, where what a friend called 'the age of cheap miracles' is taking image and sound to places noone could dream of when we were coming up in the nineteen-sixties. We're entering the undreamable, unless the misery we've caused in Iraq spreads here. Walking to Chinatown for a break, I see the streets are full of metal posts to interfere with suicide bombers. Wall Street has moved to New Jersey. I'm shaping a bright new cinema to hand over to posterity but wondering will it arrive?"

Co-sponsored by Screen Arts & Cultures and the Ann Arbor Film Festival.

Video

• Watch/download the podcast of this lecture in iTunes.

Selected Bibliography

• Conversation with Ken Jacobs. Conversations with History: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
• Ken Jacobs
• "Ken Jacobs: Biography." Electronic Arts Intermix (2006).
• Knipfel, Jim. "Movies are All People Know: An Interview With Ken Jacobs." The Brooklyn Rail (September, 2006).
• Zucker, Gregory. "Cinema and Critical Reflection: A Conversation with Ken Jacobs and Family." Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture 4.3 (Summer 2005).
• Brakhage, Stan. Film at wit's end : eight avant-garde filmmakers. Kingston, N.Y. : Documentext : McPherson & Co., 1989. Location: Hatcher Graduate Library. Call Number: 808.29 B814fi (Also: Location: Shapiro Undergraduate - Call Number: PN 1995.9 .E96 B741 1989)
• Jacobs, Ken, and Re:Voir Video (Firm). Tom, Tom the piper's son. 1 videocassette (135 min.) vols. Paris : Re:Voir Video, 2002. Location: Askwith Media Library - Room 2002 Shapiro. Call Number: VIDEO 41944-H