Ken Jacobs - From Orchard Street to The Museum of Modern Art
Fred Riedel, 2023, 98 min

Fred Riedel will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A

One of the most extraordinary personalities in the history of moving images, native New Yorker Ken Jacobs (b.1933), and his wife/creative partner Flo Jacobs, sit down for a series of discussions, reflecting on numerous excerpts from the many films and performances conjured onto screens since 1955, through to 2023 when The Museum of Modern Art in New York acquired his entire life’s work. From the street films and 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 MoMA and other major cultural institutions, to his invention of the Nervous System and the Cyclopean 3D patented Eternalisms and remarkable musical collaborations (with JG Thirwell, 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.