| Director: | Fred Riedel |
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| Production: | Red-F Knho (Fred Riedel) |
| Running Time: | 98’ |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Cinematographer: | Fred Riedel |
| Editor: | Fred Riedel |
| Sound: | Fred Riedel |
| As themselves: | Ken Jacobs, Flo Jacobs, Azazel Jacobs |
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Cinema
Ken Jacobs - From Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern Art
Venice Classics
Synopsis
One of the most extraordinary personalities in the history of moving images, native New Yorker Ken Jacobs, and his wife and long-time creative partner Flo Jacobs, sit down for a series of discussions, reflecting on numerous clips from the many films and performances conjured onto screens since 1955 and through to today. From the antic collaborations with Jack Smith and company as a central artist in the 1960s underground film movement, through later, seminal, ground-breaking formalist works which expanded his recognition by The Museum of Modern Art and other major cultural institutions, to his invention of the Nervous System and the Cyclopean 3D patented Eternalism and remarkable musical collaborations (with JG Thirlwell, Aki Onda, Nisi Jacobs, Michael Schumacher and others) of his recent work, Jacobs demonstrates and articulates his endless fascination and pursuit of exceptional, moving image art.
Director's Statement
This is the third film in a series I’ve made exploring the creative process in a purposefully low-key manner that permits me an unusual degree of 1-on-1 intimacy with my subject over a long period of time.
I have known Ken Jacobs since I was a student of his in the 1970s. I later distributed several of his films and curated screenings and collections in NY (at P.S.1, the Bleecker Street Cinema, NYPL, etc.) which included his work. It was primarily his films, especially Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son (1969), that changed my view of cinema and led me back to his art again and again. At an outdoor screening Ken presented at MoMA during the Pandemic I was struck by the sudden realization that I needed to make this film.
Production/Distribution
PRODUCTION: Red-F Knho
653 E 14th St, 6H
10009-3134 – New York, United States of America
Tel. +1 2125290639
fredriedel@gmail.com
WORLD SALES: Juan Manuel Dominguez
Hortiguera 237
1406 - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tel. +54 9115893 - 5865
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PRESS OFFICE: Fred Riedel - Red-F Knho
653 E 14th St, 6H
10009-3134 – New York, United States of America
Tel. +1 2125290639
fredriedel@gmail.com
