Radical Experiments in Contemporary Film
MoMA Film at The Gramercy Theatre
Andrew Noren (March 3)
Ken Jacobs (March 14-17)
MoMA Film at The Gramercy Theatre
127 East 23 Street at Lexington Avenue
New York, New York
Program information (212) 708-9480 and www.moma.org/film
Box office: (212) 777-4900
Image: Star Spangled to Death. 1957/2003. USA. Ken Jacobs
Andrew Noren
(March 3)
Andrew Noren is a leading creator of abstract moving images composed with light, shadow, texture, and velocity. MoMA’s Department of Film and Media presents the world premiere of Free to Go (interlude) on Wednesday, March 3 at 7:00 (2003) followed by Time Being (2001) at 8:30 .
Organized by Laurence Kardish, Senior Curator, Department of Film and Media.
More information at www.moma.org/visit_moma/momafilm/noren_2004.html
Ken Jacobs: Illuminations and Improvisations
(March 14-17)
For more than forty years, Ken Jacobs has inspired the sense of awe and mystery that nineteenth-century audiences must have felt when confronting motion pictures for the first time. The subject of a MoMA retrospective in 1996, Jacobs returns with three works that reinvigorate the medium by restoring it to its first principles. He presents Ontic Antics Starring Laurel and Hardy (1997), in which he plumbs a 1931 comedic two-reeler for unforeseen optical effects; Local Hubble II (2004), in which he reveals the miraculously “impossible movements, spectacular spaces, and unthinkable transformations” that can be conjured from a rudimentary projection device; and Star Spangled to Death (1957/2003), his recently completed, no-budget magnum opus, which, with its fierce political punch and Beat whimsy, could not have come at a better time.
Organized by Jytte Jensen, Curator, and Joshua Siegel, Assistant Curator, Department of Film and Media. Sincere thanks to Flo Jacobs.
More information at www.moma.org/visit_moma/momafilm/jacobs_2004.html