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Bobur Ismailov
yuz
Vidéo | dv | couleur | 6:0 | Ouzbékistan | 2008
A woman takes off a veil in a hope to open her face and discover the world surrounding her. The layers of veils don`t let her to break the limits of darkness. Each time she takes of the veil we hope to see her unveiled but this freedom doesn`t arrive.
Babur Ismailov is born in Uzbekistan, where he graduated from State Art Institute. He is a member of the Academy of Fine Arts of Uzbekistan and Russia. Babur Ismailov expresses himself in painting, graphics, video installations. He worked in cinema, animation, illustration, theater proving himself as truly multidimensional artist. He took part in over thirty international exhibitions in France, Italy, Germany, USA, Russia and other countries. And presented several personal exhibitions in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and Paris, France.
Tatiana Istomina
Yalta: A story of disappearance
Fiction expérimentale | 16mm | couleur | 10:36 | USA | 2012
This short film is made of archival footage shot at the Yalta conference (1945) - a historic meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin shortly before the end of the WWII. The film mimics the style of a TV documentary and shows behind-the-scenes of the conference through the eyes of a fictitious character, whose possible involvement in espionage and unexplained disappearance comprise the mystery, which the film attempts to resolve, - albeit unsuccessfully. The fictional narrative provides possible reasons and motivations behind the random collection of recordings in the original footage, weaving together several important historical themes associated with the Yalta conference: the deep cultural divide between the Soviets and the Western Allies; the eavesdropping and espionage attempts made by the negotiators, and the premonitions of the upcoming Cold War.
Tatiana Istomina is a Russian-born US artist working in video, painting and drawing. She holds a PhD in geophysics from Yale University (2010) and MFA from Parsons New School (2011). Her works have been shown in the US, Russia and Canada; she had solo shows in New York and Houston. Istomina has completed several artist residencies, including the Core Program (Museum of Fine Arts of Houston) and the AIM residency (The Bronx Museum of Arts, New York). She was nominated for Kandinsky prize and Dedlaus foundation fellowship and received awards such as the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award and the American Austrian Foundation Prize for Fine Arts.
André Iten
Centre de l'Image Saint-Gervais
0 | 0 | | 0:0 | Suisse | 2007
Créée en 1985, la Biennale de l?Image en Mouvement (BIM) est une des manifestations pionnières dans la programmation de films d?artistes. Comprenant un festival et une exposition, la Biennale a pour mission de présenter des films tissant des liens entre les arts plastiques, le cinéma et le monde des médias. Cette année, le festival consacrera certaines de ses rétrospectives à Stavros Tornès (GR), Robert Morin (CAN) et Clemens Klopfenstein (CH). Des programmes seront dédiés à Hannes Schüpbach (CH), Shelly Silver (USA), Corinna Schnitt (DE) ou Martha Rosler (USA), et de jeunes artistes seront à découvrir dans les sections compétition internationale et programmes d?écoles d?art. Des conférences seront également organisées autour du travail de plusieurs artistes. Conçue en parallèle au festival, l?exposition permet de présenter des installations vidéos. Sous le titre de « Culture hors-sol », cette édition présentera notamment des ?uvres de Thierry Kuntzel (F), Pierre Huyghe (F), Beat Streuli (CH), David Claerbout (B), Hubbard & Birchler (CH/USA), Stan Douglas (CAN) et Samuel Beckett (GB). Informations: www.12bim.ch
André Iten est Directeur du Centre Saint-Gervais Genève pour l`Image Contemporaine. Soucieux de préserver le patrimoine artistique que constituaient les bandes réalisées par des artistes dans le courant des années 60 et 70, il fut à l`origine d`un plan de restauration, catalogage et archivage des bandes, plan initié en 1990 qui permit de révéler la richesse de cette collection de travaux vidéos à travers un programme historique intitulé "Les pionniers de la vidéo en Suisse", face visible de ce vaste plan de restauration financé par le Fonds municipal d`art contemporain de la ville de Genève. En 1998 il donnait naissance au Centre pour l`image contemporaine, lieu consacré aux activités liées à l`image, dans le souci de donner corps à plusieurs années de réflexion sur les évolutions de l`image et d`activités portées par son engagement artistique.
Artem Iurchenko
Atelier #5
Documentaire | hdv | couleur | 28:0 | Ukraine | 2014
L`atelier de Vladimir, artiste-graveur, à Kiev, Ukraine, semble une boule hermétique. Pourtant le monde extérieur se fait entendre jusqu`ici. Qu` attend Vladimir de la révolution?
né le 31/12/1987 Kiev, Ukraine Formations : 2013-14 Master 2, documentaire de création, parcours réalisation (Ecole documentaire de Lussas, Université Stendhal 3 Grenoble), mention très bien. 2010-12 École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts Tours Angers Le Mans, cite d`Angers M2, Bac+5, option Art Média 2004-2008 Diplôme de Maîtrise (Bac +4) de l`Institut d`Édition Polygraphique de l`Université Technique Nationale de l`Ukraine "Institut Polytechnique de Kiev"
Stefan Ivancic
1973
Doc. expérimental | hdv | couleur | 33:29 | Serbia | 2014
Scènes de vie quotidienne au bord du Danube, en Serbie ; il ne se passe rien ou presque pour ces hommes échoués au port en même temps que les bateaux. Guidé par un protagoniste aussi attachant qu’un peu naïf et décalé, on parle économie, papillons de nuit, on parle des vieilles chansons de jeunesse, à la mode dans les années 1970. Un film sensible d’observation, d’une société en suspens.
Stefan IVANČIĆ was born in Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia, in 1985. From 1991 to 2009 he lived in Barcelona, Spain, where he got his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. After living for 18 years far away from his birthplace, he went back to what was left of Yugoslavia in 2009, and graduated in film directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, Serbia, in 2013. He has written film criticism for a number of Spanish and Serbian publications, he is a member of FIPRESCI and he was a founding member and editor-in-chief of the Spanish web-magazines Lumière (www.elumiere.net) and Contrapicado. He has collaborated in several collective books on cinema and has worked as a programmer and publications editor at Cinema City International Film Festival Novi Sad, Pančevo Film Festival and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival. His short films Soles de primavera (2013), 1973 (2014) and Moonless Summer (2014) have been selected at a great number of international film festivals, including Cannes, Rotterdam, FID Marseille, Torino, San Sebastian, Visions du Réel, IndieLisboa, Seville, Thessaloniki, L’Alternativa Barcelona and Premiers Plans Angers. Stefan is currently producing the feature film The Load by Ognjen Glavonić, a Hubert Bals Fund, CineMart and Connecting Cottbus-supported project.
Daria Ivans, Orlikova Polina
(anti)Mobilization
Vidéo expérimentale | mp4 | couleur | 6:21 | Russie | 2022
The video project is dedicated to the current political reality of the war between Russia and Ukraine, in which a lot of people are involved. On September 21, 2022, Vladimir Putin announced a "partial" mobilization. Many of our relatives and friends who did not want to participate in the war found themselves under the threat of being forcibly drawn into the military action. Many managed to escape and avoid this fate, many had to abandon their families to do so, leaving them in uncertainty about the future. Daria and Polina, observing these events both from the inside and from the outside (Polina emigrated to Thailand at the beginning of the war), brought another perspective to their observation - that of surveillance cameras, indifferent and accurate witnesses and instruments of human manipulation, depending on who uses them. Almost a year has passed since the mobilization. We fear the second wave of mobilization and say goodbye in advance to those of our friends who still remain in Russia. We are talking about things that are forbidden to talk about in “our” country, because it's our way of resistance.
Daria Ivans is a xenomedia artist from Saint Petersburg specializing in the magical analysis of digital algorithms, beloved daughter of dispersed Y2K melancholy, interface therapist-researcher of molten Web 1.0, gif-jockey of dig-artifacts and amulets for forging extensions of connections between worlds and points of contemporaneity, cyber-switcher/-scanner of sticky image mutations. She is a bachelor of philosophy, master of "Art & Science." Polina Orlikova (aka Popo) is a young musician currently living and creating in Bangkok. Her interests and productions are laid around discovering and exploring young genres. In her latest path she is looking for the intersections between club and experimental sounds.
Alfredo Jaar
MUXIMA
Vidéo expérimentale | dv | couleur | 36:0 | Chili, Angola | 2006
«Ce film est né de mon amour pour la musique africaine contemporaine. Je collectionne des enregistrements de cette musique depuis une vingtaine d`années en me concentrant particulièrement sur la musique des anciennes colonies portugaises Angola, Mozambique, Guinée-Bissau et Cap Vert. Un jour, alors que j`étais en train de classer mes enregistrements de musique angolaise, j`ai découvert que je possédais six versions différentes d`une chanson intitulée Muxima. C`est ainsi que le film est né. » Alfredo Jaar
Alfredo Jaar est né en 1956 à Santiago de Chili. Il a remporté le prestigieux MacArthur Fellowship, ainsi que d?autres prix. Il a étudié l?architecture et la réalisation. Depuis 1982, il vit et travaille à New York. Son travail a été exposé dans des expositions individuelles et de groupe dans les musées du monde entier, dont le New Museum of Contemporary Art de New York, le Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art et au Moderna Museet de Stockholm. Jaar a également présenté son travail aux biennales de Venise, de São Paulo, de Johannesburg, de Sydney, d?Istanbul, et de Kwangju. Son travail a été exposé en 2002 à la Documenta de Kassel avec son installation « Lament of the Images ». Alfredo Jaar est un artiste sans compromis. Ses installations combinent des éléments photographiques, architecturaux, et des images documentaires, et explorent les relations complexes développées entre les nations et les soit disant pays du tiers-monde. Dans son travail, Alfredo Jaar suit et souligne les ironies et les injustices qui caractérisent ces relations, et met à jour la recherche systématique du profit qui y sont sous jacentes.
Benny Jaberg
THE GREEN SERPENT – of vodka, men and distilled dreams
| | couleur et n&b | 20:33 | Suisse | 2013
THE GREEN SERPENT nous emmène dans les profondeurs de l`ivresse: boire de la vodka comme expérience transcendantale. Le serpent vert mord et la pénombre se fait. La beauté de la vie devient alors indissociable d`un vide dévastateur, où l`inspiration et la destruction sont symétriques. Durant ce voyage cinématographique à travers l`hiver russe, loin des images de carte postale, nous rencontrons l`acteur Aleksandr Bashirov, le poète Mstislav Biserov et le physicien Nikolai Budnev. Ils nous dévoilent leur relation à la vodka, le combat intérieur et la poursuite d`esprit divins réveillés par la boisson. Ce Cinépoème abrupt explore le potentiel de la vodka à étendre le monde hors du cadre de la religion et du matérialisme. THE GREEN SERPENT est une méditation sur l`acte de boire, moins un hymne aux piliers de bars qu`une ode à tous ceux qui cherchent le merveilleux en espérant trouver l`extase.
Benny Jaberg studied at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), where he graduated in 2010 with a Master of Arts in film directing. His first feature length and award-winning documentary for cinema «Daniel Schmid – Le chat qui pense» premiered at the 2010th Berlinale and has been shown at numerous film festivals worldwide. Benny Jaberg works as an independent filmmaker and is currently developing several concepts and scripts for documentary and fiction films.
Ken Jacobs
THE SCENIC ROUTE
Vidéo expérimentale | dv | couleur et n&b | 25:0 | USA | 2008
Selon l'artiste, l'une des belles choses dans les films, c'est qu?on peut les garder à distance. Mais « The Scenic Route », semble déborder de l'écran, en mettant continuellement en danger les lignes de démarcation.
Ken Jacobs est né en 1933 à Brooklyn, New York (USA). L'artiste a commencé à faire des films en 1955. Il a créé et dirigé The Millénaire Film Workshop à New York de 1966 à 1968 et a fondé le Département de Cinéma à la SUNY de Binghamton (USA) en 1969. Il a été professeur de cinéma de 1974 à 2000, professeur distingué en 2000, et professeur distingué émérite en 2002. Il a reçu de nombreuses bourses et prix pour son travail, qui a été présenté internationalement. Parmi les plus récents, signalons notamment le Grand Prix au Festival 25 FPS de Zagreb (Croatie) en 2007, et le prix du meilleur court-métrage expérimental à Curta Cinema (Rio de Janeiro) en 2007. Son ?uvre comprend des films, des pièces de théâtre, des films-spectacles, des vidéos et des ciné-installations.
Nisi Jacobs
Nothing/Moving: A Multicellular Organigram
Vidéo expérimentale | dv | couleur | 35:0 | USA | 2005
NOTHING/MOVING fut crée pour l?exposition de Jonas Mekas. Fragments de paradis à la Galerie Maya Stendhal , ville de New York, comme une installation à canal simple sur plusieurs moniteurs basée sur le film épique de Jonas Mekas "As I was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty", 16 mm, 2000. Pellicule- journal de vingt-cinq ans de vie à SoHo, à New York, et les commentaires spontanés d'une voix-off sont utilisées comme un matériel brut, avec des morceaux de bandes sonores de "Zazie dans le métro" de Louie Malle, que j?ai vu pour la première fois à l?anthologie de Mekas à SoHo en 1976, et des chants d?oiseaux exotiques formant un poème visuel/sonore en hommage à Jonas Mekas. Crédits : Nisi Jacobs avec Pip Chodorov. Film original de Jonas Mekas. N.J.
Nisi Jacobs est née et a grandi à New York. Elle est allé à la Stuyvesant High School où elle a étudié l?écriture créative avec Frank McCourt, l?auteur de ?Les Cendres d?Angela? et ?Tis?. Mlle Jacobs fréquentait la Cooper Union for painting, une Université subventionnée à New York, elle a reçu une bourse d?été pour étudier la peinture à Corona, en Italie et elle est diplômée d?un bac en Arts Appliqués. Elle enseigne en ce moment au Digital Editing du Graduate Center de l?Université de New York ainsi qu?au Digital Editing and Sound Design de la New York Film Academy. Son ?uvre, «Little Bits of Skin (Words)" a récemment fait partie d?un festival affilié au New York Film Festival programmé par Mark McElhatten à l' Anthology Film Archives ainsi qu?au Invisible Film Series du Millennium Film Workshop. Ses vidéos ont été exposées en tant qu?installations vidéos et audios à la Maya Stendhal Gallery à Chelsea (New York). Elles ont aussi participé à l?exposition "Fragment in Paradise" de Jonas Meka en 2005, au "Vital Signs" penchée sur la politique de l?exposition du groupe d?été (2005) et aussi comme une installation sonore de 70 min en Surrond 5.1 pour l?installation de la projection du film de Ken et Flo Jacobs intitulé ??The Guests??.Nisi Jacobs a projeté sa vidéo lors de festivals à Paris, Berlin, Athènes en Grèce, à Hong Kong, au Royaume-Uni, à San Francisco, à New York mais aussi au Tribeca Film Festival (2003). Cette vidéo est en ce moment distribuée par la New York Film-Maker's Cooperative, RoArtario Paris/Berlin, Light Cone à Paris. Nisi Jacobs a été la conservatrice de programmes mensuels de vidéos et de films expérimentaux à la Phatory Gallery et a été invité à prendre part à deux programmes de cette série pour SYNCH FESTIVAL, la 2ème Edition of Electronic Music & Digital Arts Festival in Lavrio, à Athènes, Grèce, en juillet 2005 ainsi que le HOWL festival lors de l?été 2005.
Ken Jacobs
a loft
Vidéo expérimentale | dv | couleur | 16:0 | USA | 2010
a loft 16 min., silent, color, 2010 computer assistance; Nisi Jacobs A 3-D glimpse of a downtown Manhattan artist?s loft about to give birth to new artist?s lofts, which is odd, seeing that dentists and the minor hirelings of high finance are likely to be the new renters and buyers. Also odd is the absence of any 3-D technology.
Ken Jacobs Biography Born in Brooklyn, NY, 1933. After completion of high school, I went into the Coast Guard for two years. The GI Bill enabled me to study painting at various schools and to study film at CUNY but it wasn`t until I began studying painting with Hans Hofmann, 1956-57, that I felt that I was studying with someone who had something to teach. Started making films, 1955. I created/directed The Millennium Film Workshop, N.Y.C.1966-68; started the Dept.of Cinema at S.U.N.Y. at Binghamton, 1969; Professor of Cinema1974-2000; Distinguished Prof. of Cinema, 2000; Distinguished Prof. of Cinema Emeritus, 2002- Grants and Awards (a selection): D.A.A.D. 1986; Maya Deren Award 1994; J.S. Guggenheim Fellowship 1995; N.E.A. 1995; The Rockefeller Foundation special grant 1999; NYFA 2001, 2010; NYSCA 2001, 2007, 2009; NYSCA distribution grant 2002; Fund For Jewish Documentary Filmmaking 2003; Stan Brakhage Vision Award 2004; Los Angeles Film Critics Association -The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award 2004 (for ?Star Spangled To Death?); Il Cinema Ritrovato DVD Awards 2006 III edizione, Bologna (special mention/experimental for ?Star Spangled To Death?); renew media (Rockefeller Foundation) grant 2007, Oberhausen prize of the Jury of the Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia, May 2007; awarded Great Prize ?15th Curtas Vila do Conde, Portugal, July 2007, Gran Prix (one of 3) 25 FPS Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, October, 2007; awarded Best Experimental short film Curta Cinema, Dec. 2007, 2008 Rio De Janeiro Int. Short Film Fest.; ?Tom, Tom, The Piper?s Son? named to the National Film Registry, Dec. 27, 2007; National Society Of Film Critics Annual Awards of 2008 awarded "RAZZLE DAZZLE The Lost World" Best Experimental Film; free 103 point 9 grant, 2010 Included in The Whitney Museum of American Art, Biennial 1981, 1985, 1989, 1995, 1997, 2002. Included in The Whitney Museum of American Art, The American Century: Art and Culture, 1950-2000, 1999-2000; Film and film/performance retrospective, American Museum of the Moving Image 1989; included in the N.Y. Film Festival at Lincoln Center 1991, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010; partial retrospective of films and film/performance work, The American Center, Paris, 1994; partial retrospective of film/performance works, Museum of Modern Art, 1996; included in (a selection): Oberhausen Short Film Festival 1996, 2007; Berlin Film Festival, 1997,2007; Taormina Film Festival, 1997; London Film Festival 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007; Rotterdam Film Festival 2001, 2003, filmmaker-in-focus, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009; Hong Kong International Film Festival, 2003, 2004, 2006; Tribeca Film Festival 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009; a featured artist (partial retrospective) Argosfestival, Brussels, 2004, 2007; Jeonju International Film Festival 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009; Jeon (Seoul Film Festival 2005, 2007; Cinematexas International Short Film Festival 2004, 2005; Starz Denver International Film Festival 2004; inc. in Movies on the Mind; Psychology and Film Since Sigmund Freud (Exhibition, Publication and Film Series) 9/2006-1/2007, Film Museum Berlin; World premiere of digital version of my Nervous System film/performance ?Two Wrenching Departures? MoMA, Oct. 2006; included in the Danish documentary and experimental film festival, Copenhagen, Nov.10-20, 2006; inc. in the Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival, 2006, 2008, 2009; San Francisco Int. Film Festival 2007, ?Star Spangled To Death? inc. in Documenta 12 (July 18/19, 2007); included in 15th Curtas Vila do Conde Int. Short Film Fest., Portugal, 2007; inc. in American Film Festival in Moscow, 2007, 2008; inc. in Toronto Int. Film Festival, Wavelengths, 2007, 2010; Viennale, Int. Film Festival, 2007,2010; Austria; Leeds Int. Film Fest., 2007; Torino Film Festival, 25th 2007, 26th 2008, 27th 2009; Sonic Acts XII, Feb. 2008, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; James River Film Festival, April 2008; BAFICI 10 Cine Independiente, Argentina, April, 2008; EXIS 2008, Seoul, Korea, Sept. 2008; 25fps Zagreb, Croatia, Sept. 2008; ?Return To The Scene Of The Crime? premiere Louvre, May, 2008; ?Return To The Scene Of The Crime?, Tate Modern, Sept. 2008; Valdiva Film Fest., Chile, Oct. 2008; Lausanne Underground Fest., Switzerland, Oct. 2008; ?Return To The Scene Of The Crime? premiered in NYC, MoMA, Oct. 16-22 (with other films); Bolzano ShortFilmFestival, Nov., 2008; Dallas Video Festival, Nov. 2008; Janela, Brazil, Nov. 2008; AURORA, Film Festival, Norwich, UK, Nov. 2008; Avanto Festival, Helsinki, Finland, Nov. 2008; KYTN, England, Dec. 2008; Les Rencontres Internationales 2008, 2009; Nervous Magic Lantern performace Harvard Film Archives, Jan. 11-13, 2009; premiered ANAGLYPH TOM (Tom With Puffy Cheeks) Anthology Film Archives, May 15-21, 2009; short film WHAT HAPPENED ON 23rd STREET IN 1901 inc. Curtocircuito 6th Int. Short Film Festival 2009, Santiago de Compostela , Spain; HOT DOGS AT THE MET inc. Ourense Int. Film Fest. , Spain; Nervous Magic Lantern performances: Oklahoma State University; Pacific Film Archives, SF, CA; RedCat Theater, LA, CA, Oct. 2009; Nervous Magic Lantern, Cinematheque, France, Jan.2010; Animism exhibition Antwerp, Belgium & Bern, Switzerland, 2010; gallery exhibition of my films and Nervous Magic Lantern performance, Curtas Vila do Conde, Portugal.
Ken Jacobs
CAPITALISM: SLAVERY
Vidéo expérimentale | dv | noir et blanc | 3:0 | USA | 2006
Une antique image stéréographique de ramasseurs de coton, animé par ordinateur pour présenter la scène d'une profondeur active, même pour les borgnes. Silencieux, mélancolique, bref.
Born, 1933, Brooklyn, New York Studied painting with Hans Hofmann, 1956-57. Started making films, 1955. Created/Directed The Millennium Film Workshop, N.Y.C.1966-68; started the Dept.of Cinema at S.U.N.Y. at Binghamton, 1969; Professor of Cinema1974-2000; Distinguished Prof. of Cinema, 2000-
Ken Jacobs
excerpt from THE SKY SOCIALIST stratified
Film expérimental | dv | couleur | 18:0 | USA | 2009
excerpt from THE SKY SOCIALIST stratified A digital visit in 2009 to where we, Flo and I, had been in 1964/65. Young people of today, take my word there`s no exaggerating how vivid, of the moment, whizbang and splendidly new 1964 and 65 were in their time. True, I was entering my thirties but Flo, my child-bride, was turning 23. Underground Cinema had gotten momentarily hot just as my 16mm camera was stolen. I recoiled from the throng pushing to enter the circle of cheap celebrity and switched to 8mm. I then filmed THE SKY SOCIALIST, a sunny feature during the time of US assault upon the Vietnamese people -why? because they were there, they were "yellow". and profit margins couldn`t be better, and afterwards Flo and I struggled to make a decent 16mm. blow-up, yet to happen. The purpose of cinema as I understood it then was to lie, in order to make history bearable. The lie, however, was to be obvious enough so as to allude to the truth; film was a lie that invited seeing through, it was like religion but with a more of a wink. Flo then became a stand-in for Anne Frank, while The Muse Of Cinema flew to the rescue with a happy ending mostly because she knew doing so gave her a chance to look good. Our days were permeated with the transcendent music of Olivier Messiaen and Charles Ives and Arnold Schoenberg and so, naturally, was this perfectly self-indulgent movie. For this return visit some of Messiaen can still be heard, contending with the supremely hip sensibility of Michael Schumacher.
Ken Jacobs: Resume/Biography Born, 1933, Brooklyn, New York Studied painting with Hans Hofmann, 1956-57. Started making films, 1955. Created/Directed The Millennium Film Workshop, N.Y.C.1966-68; started the Dept.of Cinema at S.U.N.Y. at Binghamton, 1969; Professor of Cinema1974-2000; Distinguished Prof. of Cinema, 2000; Distinguished Prof. of Cinema Emeritus, 2002- Grants and Awards (a selection): D.A.A.D. 1986; Maya Deren Award 1994; J.S. Guggenheim Fellowship 1995; N.E.A. 1995; The Rockefeller Foundation special grant 1999; NYFA 2001; NYSCA 2001, 2007; NYSCA distribution grant 2002; Fund For Jewish Documentary Filmmaking 2003; Stan Brakhage Vision Award 2004; Los Angeles Film Critics Association -The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award 2004 (for ?Star Spangled To Death?); Il Cinema Ritrovato DVD Awards 2006 III edizione, Bologna (special mention/experimental for ?Star Spangled To Death?); renew media (Rockefeller Foundation) grant 2007, Oberhausen prize of the Jury of the Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia, May 2007; awarded Great Prize ?15th Curtas Vila do Conde, Portugal, July 2007, Gran Prix (one of 3) 25 FPS Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, October, 2007; awarded Best Experimental short film Curta Cinema, Dec. 2007, 2008 Rio De Janeiro Int. Short Film Fest.; ?Tom, Tom, The Piper?s Son? named to the National Film Registry, Dec. 27, 2007 Included in The Whitney Museum of American Art, Biennial 1981, 1985, 1989, 1995, 1997, 2002. Included in The Whitney Museum of American Art, The American Century: Art and Culture, 1950-2000, 1999-2000; Film and film/performance retrospective, American Museum of the Moving Image 1989; included in the N.Y. Film Festival at Lincoln Center 1991, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009; partial retrospective of films and film/performance work, The American Center, Paris, 1994; partial retrospective of film/performance works, Museum of Modern Art, 1996; included in (a selection): Oberhausen Short Film Festival 1996, 2007; Berlin Film Festival, 1997,2007; Taormina Film Festival, 1997; London Film Festival 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007; Rotterdam Film Festival 2001, 2003, filmmaker-in-focus, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009; Hong Kong International Film Festival, 2003, 2004, 2006; Tribeca Film Festival 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009; a featured artist (partial retrospective) Argosfestival, Brussels, 2004, 2007; Jeonju International Film Festival 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009; Jeon (Seoul Film Festival 2005, 2007; Cinematexas International Short Film Festival 2004, 2005; Starz Denver International Film Festival 2004; inc. in Movies on the Mind; Psychology and Film Since Sigmund Freud (Exhibition, Publication and Film Series) 9/2006-1/2007, Film Museum Berlin; World premiere of digital version of my Nervous System film/performance ?Two Wrenching Departures? MoMA, Oct. 2006; included in the Danish documentary and experimental film festival, Copenhagen, Nov.10-20, 2006; inc. in the Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Ken Jacobs: Resume/Biography (continued) page 2 Festival, 2006, 2008, 2009; San Francisco Int. Film Festival 2007, ?Star Spangled To Death? inc. in Documenta 12 (July 18/19, 2007); included in 15th Curtas Vila do Conde Int. Short Film Fest., Portugal, 2007; inc. in American Film Festival in Moscow, 2007, 2008; inc. in Toronto Int. Film Festival, Wavelengths, 2007; Viennale, Int. Film Festival, 2007, Austria; Leeds Int. Film Fest., 2007; Torino Film Festival, 25th 2007, 26th 2008, 27th 2009; Sonic Acts XII, Feb. 2008, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; James River Film Festival, April 2008; BAFICI 10 Cine Independiente, Argentina, April, 2008; EXIS 2008, Seoul, Korea, Sept. 2008; 25fps Zagreb, Croatia, Sept. 2008; ?Return To The Scene Of The Crime? premiere Louvre, May, 2008; ?Return To The Scene Of The Crime?, Tate Modern, Sept. 2008; Valdiva Film Fest., Chile, Oct. 2008; Lausanne Underground Fest., Switzerland, Oct. 2008; ?Return To The Scene Of The Crime? premiered in NYC, MoMA, Oct. 16-22 (with other films); Bolzano ShortFilmFestival, Nov., 2008; Dallas Video Festival, Nov. 2008; Janela, Brazil, Nov. 2008; AURORA, Film Festival, Norwich, UK, Nov. 2008; Avanto Festival, Helsinki, Finland, Nov. 2008; KYTN, England, Dec. 2008; Les Rencontres Internationales 2008, 2009; Nervous Magic Lantern performace Harvard Film Archives, Jan. 11-13, 2009; premiered ANAGLYPH TOM (Tom With Puffy Cheeks) Anthology Film Archives, May 15-21, 2009; short film WHAT HAPPENED ON 23rd STREET IN 1901 inc. Curtocircuito 6th Int. Short Film Festival 2009, Santiago de Compostela , Spain; HOT DOGS AT THE MET inc. Ourense Int. Film Fest. , Spain Filmography of Ken Jacobs ORCHARD STREET, 1955, 12 min., clr. silent THE WHIRLED, 1956-63, 19 min., b/w & clr., sound & silent STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH, 1957-59, completed (in digital) 2003-4, 440 min., b/w & clr., sound LITTLE STABS AT HAPPINESS, 1958-60, 18 min., clr., sound BLONDE COBRA, 1959-63, 30 min., b/w & clr., sound BAUD`LARIAN CAPERS, 1963, 25 min., silent & sound WINDOW, 1964, 12 min., clr. silent THE WINTER FOOTAGE, (1964-8mm.) (1985-16mm.) 50 min., clr., silent THE SKY SOCIALIST, (1964-65 8mm.) 16mm. to be completed 2006, approx. 2 hrs., clr., sound LISA AND JOEY IN CONNECTICUT, JANUARY `65: "YOU`VE COME BACK!" "YOU`RE STILL HERE!", 1965, 18 min., clr., silent AIRSHAFT, 1967, 4 min., clr., silent SOFT RAIN, 1968, 12 min., clr., silent NISSAN ARIANA WINDOW, 1968, 15 min., clr., silent TOM, TOM, THE PIPER`S SON, 1969, 115 min., b/w, silent (distributed on PAL vhs 2000, NTSC vhs 2002 together with a book of essays) GLOBE, 1969, 22 min., clr., sound Ken Jacobs: Resume/Biography (continued) page 3 URBAN PEASANTS, 1975, 50 min., b/w, silent image alternated with sound-in-dark SPAGHETTI AZA, 1976, 1-1/2 min., clr., silent THE DOCTOR`S DREAM, 1978, 27 min., b/w, sound PERFECT FILM, 1985, 27 min., b/w, sound JERRY TAKES A BACK SEAT, THEN PASSES OUT OF THE PICTURE, 1987, 15 min., clr., silent OPENING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: 1896, 1990, 11 min., b/w, silent KEATON`S COPS, 1991, 23 min., b/w, silent THE GEORGETOWN LOOP, 1996, 11 min., 35mm. & 16mm., b/w, silent DISORIENT EXPRESS, 1996, 30 min., 35mm. & 16mm., b/w, silent; Theater Works (a selection): all involved shadow-play or unusual uses of film. Each lasted about 90 minutes. THE BIG BLACKOUT OF `65: Chapter One "Thirties Man", 1965 RESTFUL MOMENTS, 2 and 3-Dimensional shadowplay, 1970 A GOOD NIGHT FOR THE MOVIES: 4th OF JULY BY CHARLES IVES BY KEN JACOBS, 1972 A MAN`S HOME IS HIS CASTLE FILMS: THE EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS, 1974 "SLOW IS BEAUTY" -RODIN, 2 and 3-Dimensional shadowplay, 1974; MUMOK, Vienna, 2004 THE BOXER REBELLION, 2 and 3-Dimensional shadowplay, 1975 AIR OF INCONSEQUENCE, 3-Dimensional shadowplay, 1977 Ken Jacobs At The Console Performing STICK TO YOUR CARPENTRY AND YOU WON`T GET NAILED, 1979 AUDIO-VISUAL VAUDEVILLE, 2 and 3-Dimensional shadow-play, 1982, 1994, 2000 Film-Performances of THE NERVOUS SYSTEM; a unique double-analysis projector set-up designed to derive 3-D from standard 2-D film, most often archival and other found-footage materials (all performance lengths are approximate). THE IMPOSSIBLE: Chapter One "Southwark Fair", 1975, (1 hr.) THE IMPOSSIBLE: Chapter Two "1896", 1979, (11 min.) THE IMPOSSIBLE: Chapter Three "Hell Breaks Loose", 1980, (25 min.) THE IMPOSSIBLE: Chapter Four "Schilling", 1980, (1 hr.) THE IMPOSSIBLE: Chapter Five "The Wrong Laurel", 1980, (7 min.) XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX, 1980, (90 min.) KEN JACOBS THEATER OF UNCONSCIONABLE STUPIDITY PRESENTS CAMERA THRILLS OF THE WAR, 1981, (90 min.) THE WHOLE SHEBANG, 1982, (70 min.) Ken Jacobs: Resume/Biography (continued) page 4 MAKING LIGHT OF HISTORY: THE PHILIPPINES ADVENTURE, 1983, (90 min.) TWO WRENCHING DEPARTURES, 1989, (2 hrs.) THE SUBCINEMA, 1990, (2 hrs.) NEW YORK GHETTO FISHMARKET 1903, 1993 (90 min.) BITEMPORAL VISION: THE SEA, 1994, (90 min.) THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL (A Flicker Of Life), 1995 (90 min.) LOCO MOTION, 1996, (25 min.) FROM MUYBRIDGE TO BROOKLYN BRIDGE, 1996 (includes "Muybridge On Wheels" (animated slides), "The Georgetown Loop" (film), "Loco Motion" (Nervous System work), "Disorient Express" (film), "On The Bridge" (Nervous System work) 90 min. COUPLING, 1996 (1 hr.) ONTIC ANTICS STARRING LAUREL AND HARDY, 1997 (1 hr.) NEW YORK STREET TROLLEYS 1900, 1997 (25 min.) UN PETIT TRAIN DE PLAISIR, 1998 (25 min.) Further Performance Work utilizing THE NERVOUS MAGIC LANTERN; a single self-designed projector that creates 3-D cinema without use of use of film or video, a 3-D which, like Nervous System works, can be seen in 3-D by the unaided eye, the single eye. CRYSTAL PALACE (Chandeliers For The People), 2000 (40 min.) A PLACE WHERE THERE IS NO TROUBLE, 2002 (1 hr.) LOCAL HUBBLE (For Marilyn and Stan Brakhage), April 2003 (1 hr.) LOCAL HUBBLE II: La Conference Des Oiseaux, March 2004 (1 hr.) CELESTIAL SUBWAY Last Stop All Out (music by Black Dice), March 2004, (1 hr.) CELESTIAL SUBWAY LINES 2,3,4,(multiple performances; music by John Zorn assisted by Ikue Mori) May 2004 (45 min.) SEEING IS BELIEVING (music by Rick Reed) September 2004 (1 hr.) SALVAGING NOISE (music by John Zorn assisted by Ikue Mori) October 2004 (1 hr.) INTERSTELLAR LOWER EAST SIDE RAMBLE (music by John Zorn assisted by Ikue Mori) January 2005, (1 hr.) Live Nervous Magic Lantern performance, April 2007 KYTN ?Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland Live Nervous Magic Lantern performance Lumen, May 2007, Leeds, England Live Nervous Magic Lantern performance, NYFF, October, 2007 Live Nervous Magic Lantern performance, Bozar, October, 2007, Brussels, Belgium Live Nervous Magic Lantern performance, Sonic Acts XII, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, February, 2008 Live Nervous Magic Lantern performance, Avanto Festival, November, 2008 Ken Jacobs: Resume/Biography (continued) page 5 Live Nervous Magic Lantern performance, KYTN ?England, November, December, 2008 Live Nervous Magic Lantern performance, Rotterdam Film Festival, January, 2009 Live Nervous Magic Lantern performance, Harvard Film Archive, January, 2009 Videography of Ken Jacobs FLO ROUNDS A CORNER, 1999, 6 min., clr., silent, digital computer work NEW YORK STREET-TROLLEYS 1901, 1999, 10 min., b/w, sound A TOM TOM CHASER, 2002, 10-1/2 min., b/w, silent, digital computer work CIRCLING ZERO: Part One WE SEE ABSENCE, 2002, 114 min., clr., sound, KEEPING AN EYE ON STAN, 2003, 117 min., clr., sound, CELESTIAL SUBWAY LINES/SALVAGING NOISE, 2004, 108 min., clr., music by John Zorn assisted by Ikue Mori, a Tzadik DVD MOUNTAINEER SPINNING, 2004, 26 min., clr., music by Rick Reed KRYPTON IS DOOMED, 2005, 34 min., clr., sound (Superman radio-play 1940) INSISTENT CLAMOR, 2005, 22 min., clr., music by Margaret Shelton Meier LEEDS BRIDGE 1888, 2005, 6 min., b/w, silent SPIRAL NEBULA, 2005, 45 min., clr., music by Rick Reed INCENDIARY CINEMA, 2005, 1 min., clr., sound (2005 Viennale Festival cine-logo) LET THERE BE WHISTLEBLOWERS, 2005, b/w & clr., 18 min., sound composed to DRUMMING, Part 1 by Steve Reich ONTIC ANTICS STARRING LAUREL AND HARDY; BYE, MOLLY, 2005, b/w & clr., 90 min., sound NEW YORK GHETTO FISHMARKET 1903, 2006, b/w & clr., 2 hrs. 12 min., music by Catherine Jauniaux and Tom Cora, (Tzadik DVD released March 2007 with THE SURGING SEA OF HUMANITY) PUSHCARTS OF ETERNITY STREET, 2006, b/w, 10 min., silent TWO WRENCHING DEPARTURES, 2006, b/w, 90 min., sound CAPITALISM: CHILD LABOR, 2006, 14 min., clr.,music by Rick Reed CAPITALISM: SLAVERY, 2006, 3 min., clr., silent THE SURGING SEA OF HUMANITY, 2006, 10 min. 40 sec., clr., silent RAZZLE DAZZLE The Lost World, 2006, 92 min., b/w & clr., sound WE ARE CHARMING, 2007, 1 min., b/w, silent HANKY PANKY JANUARY 1903, 2007, 1 min., b/w, silent NYMPH, 2007, 3min., b/w, silent MY FAVORITE WIFE IMPROVED, 2008, 2 min., b/w, sound RETURN TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME, 2008, 93 min., b/w & clr., music by Malcolm Goldstein THE SCENIC ROUTE, 2008, 25 min., clr., sound THE GUESTS, 2008, 89 min., b/w, sound. Lumiere?s Entree D?Une Noce A L?Eglise; sequential film-frames combine, via slight convergence of the eyes, to produce (irrational) 3-D. Ken Jacobs: Resume/Biography (continued) page 6 ALONE AT LAST, 2008, 1 min. 53 sec., silent THE DISCOVERY, 2008, 4 min. 52 sec., silent LOVE STORY, 2008, 33 sec., silent HOT DOGS AT THE MET, (HD) 2008, 10 min., sound ANAGLYPH TOM, (TOM WITH PUFFY CHEEKS), 2008, 118 min., music by Michael Schumacher, Nisi Jacobs, Malcolm Goldstein; Movement by TOM TOM cast-members converted to (irrational) stereo via red/cyan spectacles WHAT HAPPENED ON 23rd STREET IN 1901, 2009, 13 1/2 min., silent ??SLOW IS BEAUTY? ?RODIN?, 2009, 51 min. clr., anaglyh 3-D recording (original performance 1974, revived 2004), sound BROOK, (HD) 2009, 2? 15?, clr., silent BOB FLEISCHNER DYING, (HD) 2009, 2?42?, clr., silent THE DAY WAS A SCORCHER, (HD) 2009, 7?48?, clr., silent JONAS MEKAS in KODACHROME DAYS, (HD) 2009, 3?19?, clr., silent WALKWAY, (HD) 2009, 8?24?, clr., silent excerpt from THE SKY SOCIALIST stratified, 2009, 18?, clr., sound BRAIN OPERATIONS, (HD) 2009, 22?22?, b/w, silent RON GONZALEZ, SCULPTOR, (HD) 2009, 20?, clr., sound GRAVITY IS TOPS, (HD), 2009, 10?M clr., sound Cine-Installations ZOOM, 1967 -viewer installed on a moving NY ferryboat as part of the NY Avant-Garde Festival. FESTOON, 1975 35 mm. film hung outdoors for individual viewing in (irrational) 3-D THE GUESTS, 1999, 3-D slide installation (74 min. continuous cycle) based on Lumiere?s ENTREE D?UNE NOCE A L?EGLISE, by Ken and Flo Jacobs Re-installed, with sound accompaniment by Nisi Jacobs, at the Maya Stendhal Gallery, NY, 2005 GIFT OF FIRE Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World, 2007, 28 min., sound. Anaglyph 3-D; can be shown on a monitor or with a single projector, viewed through red/blue spectacles. 19 film-frames remain of artist-inventor Louis Le Prince`s 1888 movie-recording of Leeds Bridge, the first or near-first movie ever made. Here seen in stereo, Leeds Bridge (U.K.) is again active in deep space. Other 3-D comments regarding the rise of cinema are made. A 6`4 man among a 5`2 population, this giant "vanished" on the way to the patent office, quite possibly a feat of wizardry (skullduggery?) by The Wizard Of Menlo Park, Thomas Edison. Suspicions remain but now Edison is also gone and there`s only the film-fragment (originally over 200 frames) left to investigate. Also available as a Polaroid two-projector installation.
Nisi Jacobs
Epacta Lunae, a day and a half
Vidéo expérimentale | dv | couleur | 5:0 | USA | 2005
Epacta est le mot Latin pour le nombre de jours qui doivent être calculés pour synchroniser les calendriers lunaires et solaires. L?année solaire est de 365 jours et l?année lunaire est de 354 jours, il faut donc habituellement 11 jours pour les mettre en phase. J?ai pris des sons d?instruments lunaires, de cordes et de passerelles en métal, crées par les petits tiraillements des bateaux sur les docks dans les ports, mais crées aussi par la gravitation lunaire sur nos corps aqueux. L?audio de EPACTA LUNAE, A DAY AND A HALF, dérivé d?enregistrements naturels sur plusieurs niveaux dans un lit d?accords synthétisés. EPACTA LUNAE, A DAY AND A HALF est le premier poème vidéo sonore qui est inclus dans un projet beaucoup plus large nommé THE MOON?S GUITAR, COLLABORATION WITH THE TIDES..
Nisi Jacobs est née et a grandi à New York. Elle est allé à la Stuyvesant High School où elle a étudié l?écriture créative avec Frank McCourt, l?auteur de ?Les Cendres d?Angela? et ?Tis?. Mlle Jacobs fait partie la Cooper Union for painting, une université subventionnée à New York, a reçu une bourse d?été pour étudier la peinture à Corona en Italie et fut diplômée d?un bac en arts appliqués. Elle enseigne en ce moment au Digital Editing du Graduate Center de l?université de New York ainsi qu?au Digital Editing and Sound Design de la New York Film Academy. Son ?uvre, ?Little Bits of Skin (Words) ? fut récemment une partie d?un festival affilié au New York Film Festival programmé par Mark McElhatten au Anthology Film Archives ainsi qu?au Invisible Film Series du Millennium Film Workshop. Ses vidéos furent exposées en tant qu?installations vidéos et audio à la Maya Stendhal Gallery à Chelsea (New York). Elles ont aussi participé à l?exposition ??Fragment in Paradise? ? de Jonas Meka en 2005, au ?Vital Signs? penchée sur la politique de l?exposition du groupe d?été (2005) et aussi comme une installation sonore de 70 min en Surrond 5.1 pour l?installation de la projection du film de Ken et Flo Jacobs titré ??The Guests??.Nisi Jacobs a amené sa vidéo à l?écran lors de festival à Paris, Berlin, Athènes en Grèce, à Hong Kong, au Royaume-Uni, à San Fransisco, à New York mais aussi au Tribeca Film Festival (2003). Cette vidéo est en ce moment distribuée par la New York Film-Maker`s Cooperative, RoArtario Paris/Berlin, Light Cone à Paris.Nisi Jacobs fut la conservatrice de programmes mensuels de vidéos et films expérimentaux à la Phatory Gallery et fut invité à prendre part à deux programmes de cette série pour SYNCH FESTIVAL, la 2e Edition of Electronic Music & Digital Arts Festival in Lavrio, à Athènes, Grèce, en juillet 2005 ainsi que le HOWL festival lors de l?été 2005.
Ken Jacobs
From the Horse?s Mouth
Art vidéo | dv | couleur | 8:0 | USA | 2005
FROM THE HORSE?S MOUTH (I CAN PRODUCE -PRONOUNCE- NUCLEAR), Nisi Jacobs, Video, 11min., 2005. Commissionné par Maya Stendhal Gallery, New York City pour l?exposition VITAL SIGNS 2005. FROM THE HORSE?S MOUTH a aussi un second titre : (I CAN PRODUCE -PRONOUNCE-- NUCLEAR) qui est le c?ur de la motivation de sa création en tant que moment improvisé alors que Laura Bush lisait un monologue comique écrit à l?avance en 2005 lors du Dîner du Correspondant à la Maison Blanche, à Washington D.C.dans lequel elle fait un lapsus et échangé ?produit? avec ?prononce?. L?effet est sidérant car c?est son mari qui, à la table du banquet à la sourire jusqu?aux oreilles en écoutant ses blagues, a oublié de publier le communiqué sur les armes de destruction massives et qui en a fait sa raison pour envahir l?Irak. Les images de confort et l?effet du gag de dégageant visuellement intensifient cette toxicité maladive et cette hypocrisie qui engloutit la salle et ses 2 500 politiciens, journalistes, et médias ?managers? qui se réjouissent de ce trait d?esprit préfabriqué et qui en même temps s?impliquent eux-mêmes dans les crimes du mari de Laura.
Nisi Jacobs est née et a grandi à New York. Elle est allé à la Stuyvesant High School où elle a étudié l?écriture créative avec Frank McCourt, l?auteur de ?Les Cendres d?Angela? et ?Tis?. Mlle Jacobs fait partie la Cooper Union for painting, une université subventionnée à New York, a reçu une bourse d?été pour étudier la peinture à Corona en Italie et fut diplômée d?un bac en arts appliqués. Elle enseigne en ce moment au Digital Editing du Graduate Center de l?université de New York ainsi qu?au Digital Editing and Sound Design de la New York Film Academy. Son ?uvre, ?Little Bits of Skin (Words) ? fut récemment une partie d?un festival affilié au New York Film Festival programmé par Mark McElhatten au Anthology Film Archives ainsi qu?au Invisible Film Series du Millennium Film Workshop. Ses vidéos furent exposées en tant qu?installations vidéos et audio à la Maya Stendhal Gallery à Chelsea (New York). Elles ont aussi participé à l?exposition ??Fragment in Paradise? ? de Jonas Meka en 2005, au ?Vital Signs? penchée sur la politique de l?exposition du groupe d?été (2005) et aussi comme une installation sonore de 70 min en Surrond 5.1 pour l?installation de la projection du film de Ken et Flo Jacobs titré ??The Guests??.Nisi Jacobs a amené sa vidéo à l?écran lors de festival à Paris, Berlin, Athènes en Grèce, à Hong Kong, au Royaume-Uni, à San Fransisco, à New York mais aussi au Tribeca Film Festival (2003). Cette vidéo est en ce moment distribuée par la New York Film-Maker`s Cooperative, RoArtario Paris/Berlin, Light Cone à Paris.Nisi Jacobs fut la conservatrice de programmes mensuels de vidéos et films expérimentaux à la Phatory Gallery et fut invité à prendre part à deux programmes de cette série pour SYNCH FESTIVAL, la 2e Edition of Electronic Music & Digital Arts Festival in Lavrio, à Athènes, Grèce, en juillet 2005 ainsi que le HOWL festival lors de l?été 2005.
Nisi Jacobs
From the Horse?s mouth
Vidéo expérimentale | dv | couleur | 11:0 | USA | 2005
FROM THE HORSE?S MOUTH (I CAN PRODUCE -PRONOUNCE- NUCLEAR), Nisi Jacobs, Video, 11min., 2005. Commissionné par Maya Stendhal Gallery, New York City pour l?exposition VITAL SIGNS 2005. FROM THE HORSE?S MOUTH a aussi un second titre : (I CAN PRODUCE -PRONOUNCE-- NUCLEAR) qui est le c?ur de la motivation de sa création en tant que moment improvisé alors que Laura Bush lisait un monologue comique écrit à l?avance en 2005 lors du Dîner du Correspondant à la Maison Blanche, à Washington D.C.dans lequel elle fait un lapsus et échangé ?produit? avec ?prononce?. L?effet est sidérant car c?est son mari qui, à la table du banquet à la sourire jusqu?aux oreilles en écoutant ses blagues, a oublié de publier le communiqué sur les armes de destruction massives et qui en a fait sa raison pour envahir l?Irak. Les images de confort et l?effet du gag de dégageant visuellement intensifient cette toxicité maladive et cette hypocrisie qui engloutit la salle et ses 2 500 politiciens, journalistes, et médias ?managers? qui se réjouissent de ce trait d?esprit préfabriqué et qui en même temps s?impliquent eux-mêmes dans les crimes du mari de Laura.
Nisi Jacobs est née et a grandi à New York. Elle est allé à la Stuyvesant High School où elle a étudié l?écriture créative avec Frank McCourt, l?auteur de ?Les Cendres d?Angela? et ?Tis?. Mlle Jacobs fait partie la Cooper Union for painting, une université subventionnée à New York, a reçu une bourse d?été pour étudier la peinture à Corona en Italie et fut diplômée d?un bac en arts appliqués. Elle enseigne en ce moment au Digital Editing du Graduate Center de l?université de New York ainsi qu?au Digital Editing and Sound Design de la New York Film Academy. Son ?uvre, ?Little Bits of Skin (Words) ? fut récemment une partie d?un festival affilié au New York Film Festival programmé par Mark McElhatten au Anthology Film Archives ainsi qu?au Invisible Film Series du Millennium Film Workshop. Ses vidéos furent exposées en tant qu?installations vidéos et audio à la Maya Stendhal Gallery à Chelsea (New York). Elles ont aussi participé à l?exposition ??Fragment in Paradise? ? de Jonas Meka en 2005, au ?Vital Signs? penchée sur la politique de l?exposition du groupe d?été (2005) et aussi comme une installation sonore de 70 min en Surrond 5.1 pour l?installation de la projection du film de Ken et Flo Jacobs titré ??The Guests??.Nisi Jacobs a amené sa vidéo à l?écran lors de festival à Paris, Berlin, Athènes en Grèce, à Hong Kong, au Royaume-Uni, à San Fransisco, à New York mais aussi au Tribeca Film Festival (2003). Cette vidéo est en ce moment distribuée par la New York Film-Maker`s Cooperative, RoArtario Paris/Berlin, Light Cone à Paris.Nisi Jacobs fut la conservatrice de programmes mensuels de vidéos et films expérimentaux à la Phatory Gallery et fut invité à prendre part à deux programmes de cette série pour SYNCH FESTIVAL, la 2e Edition of Electronic Music & Digital Arts Festival in Lavrio, à Athènes, Grèce, en juillet 2005 ainsi que le HOWL festival lors de l?été 2005.
Ken Jacobs
HANKY PANKY JANUARY 1902
Vidéo expérimentale | dv | noir et blanc | 1:0 | USA | 2007
"Ce film marque l'invention de la sexualité humaine et en tant que tel, témoigne d'un tournant dans l'histoire des relations entre les hommes et les femmes " (Ken Jacobs).
Born, 1933, Brooklyn, New York Studied painting with Hans Hofmann, 1956-57. Started making films, 1955. Created/Directed The Millennium Film Workshop, N.Y.C.1966-68; started the Dept.of Cinema at S.U.N.Y. at Binghamton, 1969; Professor of Cinema1974-2000; Distinguished Prof. of Cinema, 2000-
Ken Jacobs
NYMPH
Vidéo expérimentale | dv | couleur | 3:0 | USA | 2007
La reine du bal entourée de sa cour. Une vidéo en 3-D qui ne nécessite pas de lunettes spéciales et peut même être regardée par les borgnes
Born, 1933, Brooklyn, New York Studied painting with Hans Hofmann, 1956-57. Started making films, 1955. Created/Directed The Millennium Film Workshop, N.Y.C.1966-68; started the Dept.of Cinema at S.U.N.Y. at Binghamton, 1969; Professor of Cinema1974-2000; Distinguished Prof. of Cinema, 2000-
Ken Jacobs
THE DAY WAS A SCORCHER
Film expérimental | dv | couleur | 7:48 | USA | 2009
THE DAY WAS A SCORCHER Movie-star Flo, Nisi the thoughtful young girl, and Aza old enough to trudge with the rest of us but still expecting to be pushed around on wheels. The sun doesn`t kid around when it`s a sunny day in Rome. But it`s a perfect day , when -as said- nothing happens.
Ken Jacobs: Resume/Biography Born, 1933, Brooklyn, New York Studied painting with Hans Hofmann, 1956-57. Started making films, 1955. Created/Directed The Millennium Film Workshop, N.Y.C.1966-68; started the Dept.of Cinema at S.U.N.Y. at Binghamton, 1969; Professor of Cinema1974-2000; Distinguished Prof. of Cinema, 2000; Distinguished Prof. of Cinema Emeritus, 2002- Grants and Awards (a selection): D.A.A.D. 1986; Maya Deren Award 1994; J.S. Guggenheim Fellowship 1995; N.E.A. 1995; The Rockefeller Foundation special grant 1999; NYFA 2001; NYSCA 2001, 2007; NYSCA distribution grant 2002; Fund For Jewish Documentary Filmmaking 2003; Stan Brakhage Vision Award 2004; Los Angeles Film Critics Association -The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award 2004 (for ?Star Spangled To Death?); Il Cinema Ritrovato DVD Awards 2006 III edizione, Bologna (special mention/experimental for ?Star Spangled To Death?); renew media (Rockefeller Foundation) grant 2007, Oberhausen prize of the Jury of the Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia, May 2007; awarded Great Prize ?15th Curtas Vila do Conde, Portugal, July 2007, Gran Prix (one of 3) 25 FPS Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, October, 2007; awarded Best Experimental short film Curta Cinema, Dec. 2007, 2008 Rio De Janeiro Int. Short Film Fest.; ?Tom, Tom, The Piper?s Son? named to the National Film Registry, Dec. 27, 2007 Included in The Whitney Museum of American Art, Biennial 1981, 1985, 1989, 1995, 1997, 2002. Included in The Whitney Museum of American Art, The American Century: Art and Culture, 1950-2000, 1999-2000; Film and film/performance retrospective, American Museum of the Moving Image 1989; included in the N.Y. Film Festival at Lincoln Center 1991, 1998, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009; partial retrospective of films and film/performance work, The American Center, Paris, 1994; partial retrospective of film/performance works, Museum of Modern Art, 1996; included in (a selection): Oberhausen Short Film Festival 1996, 2007; Berlin Film Festival, 1997,2007; Taormina Film Festival, 1997; London Film Festival 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007; Rotterdam Film Festival 2001, 2003, filmmaker-in-focus, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009; Hong Kong International Film Festival, 2003, 2004, 2006; Tribeca Film Festival 2003, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009; a featured artist (partial retrospective) Argosfestival, Brussels, 2004, 2007; Jeonju International Film Festival 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009; Jeon (Seoul Film Festival 2005, 2007; Cinematexas International Short Film Festival 2004, 2005; Starz Denver International Film Festival 2004; inc. in Movies on the Mind; Psychology and Film Since Sigmund Freud (Exhibition, Publication and Film Series) 9/2006-1/2007, Film Museum Berlin; World premiere of digital version of my Nervous System film/performance ?Two Wrenching Departures? MoMA, Oct. 2006; included in the Danish documentary and experimental film festival, Copenhagen, Nov.10-20, 2006; inc. in the Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Ken Jacobs: Resume/Biography (continued) page 2 Festival, 2006, 2008, 2009; San Francisco Int. Film Festival 2007, ?Star Spangled To Death? inc. in Documenta 12 (July 18/19, 2007); included in 15th Curtas Vila do Conde Int. Short Film Fest., Portugal, 2007; inc. in American Film Festival in Moscow, 2007, 2008; inc. in Toronto Int. Film Festival, Wavelengths, 2007; Viennale, Int. Film Festival, 2007, Austria; Leeds Int. Film Fest., 2007; Torino Film Festival, 25th 2007, 26th 2008, 27th 2009; Sonic Acts XII, Feb. 2008, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; James River Film Festival, April 2008; BAFICI 10 Cine Independiente, Argentina, April, 2008; EXIS 2008, Seoul, Korea, Sept. 2008; 25fps Zagreb, Croatia, Sept. 2008; ?Return To The Scene Of The Crime? premiere Louvre, May, 2008; ?Return To The Scene Of The Crime?, Tate Modern, Sept. 2008; Valdiva Film Fest., Chile, Oct. 2008; Lausanne Underground Fest., Switzerland, Oct. 2008; ?Return To The Scene Of The Crime? premiered in NYC, MoMA, Oct. 16-22 (with other films); Bolzano ShortFilmFestival, Nov., 2008; Dallas Video Festival, Nov. 2008; Janela, Brazil, Nov. 2008; AURORA, Film Festival, Norwich, UK, Nov. 2008; Avanto Festival, Helsinki, Finland, Nov. 2008; KYTN, England, Dec. 2008; Les Rencontres Internationales 2008, 2009; Nervous Magic Lantern performace Harvard Film Archives, Jan. 11-13, 2009; premiered ANAGLYPH TOM (Tom With Puffy Cheeks) Anthology Film Archives, May 15-21, 2009; short film WHAT HAPPENED ON 23rd STREET IN 1901 inc. Curtocircuito 6th Int. Short Film Festival 2009, Santiago de Compostela , Spain; HOT DOGS AT THE MET inc. Ourense Int. Film Fest. , Spain Filmography of Ken Jacobs ORCHARD STREET, 1955, 12 min., clr. silent THE WHIRLED, 1956-63, 19 min., b/w & clr., sound & silent STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH, 1957-59, completed (in digital) 2003-4, 440 min., b/w & clr., sound LITTLE STABS AT HAPPINESS, 1958-60, 18 min., clr., sound BLONDE COBRA, 1959-63, 30 min., b/w & clr., sound BAUD`LARIAN CAPERS, 1963, 25 min., silent & sound WINDOW, 1964, 12 min., clr. silent THE WINTER FOOTAGE, (1964-8mm.) (1985-16mm.) 50 min., clr., silent THE SKY SOCIALIST, (1964-65 8mm.) 16mm. to be completed 2006, approx. 2 hrs., clr., sound LISA AND JOEY IN CONNECTICUT, JANUARY `65: "YOU`VE COME BACK!" "YOU`RE STILL HERE!", 1965, 18 min., clr., silent AIRSHAFT, 1967, 4 min., clr., silent SOFT RAIN, 1968, 12 min., clr., silent NISSAN ARIANA WINDOW, 1968, 15 min., clr., silent TOM, TOM, THE PIPER`S SON, 1969, 115 min., b/w, silent (distributed on PAL vhs 2000, NTSC vhs 2002 together with a book of essays) GLOBE, 1969, 22 min., clr., sound Ken Jacobs: Resume/Biography (continued) page 3 URBAN PEASANTS, 1975, 50 min., b/w, silent image alternated with sound-in-dark SPAGHETTI AZA, 1976, 1-1/2 min., clr., silent THE DOCTOR`S DREAM, 1978, 27 min., b/w, sound PERFECT FILM, 1985, 27 min., b/w, sound JERRY TAKES A BACK SEAT, THEN PASSES OUT OF THE PICTURE, 1987, 15 min., clr., silent OPENING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: 1896, 1990, 11 min., b/w, silent KEATON`S COPS, 1991, 23 min., b/w, silent THE GEORGETOWN LOOP, 1996, 11 min., 35mm. & 16mm., b/w, silent DISORIENT EXPRESS, 1996, 30 min., 35mm. & 16mm., b/w, silent; Theater Works (a selection): all involved shadow-play or unusual uses of film. Each lasted about 90 minutes. THE BIG BLACKOUT OF `65: Chapter One "Thirties Man", 1965 RESTFUL MOMENTS, 2 and 3-Dimensional shadowplay, 1970 A GOOD NIGHT FOR THE MOVIES: 4th OF JULY BY CHARLES IVES BY KEN JACOBS, 1972 A MAN`S HOME IS HIS CASTLE FILMS: THE EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS, 1974 "SLOW IS BEAUTY" -RODIN, 2 and 3-Dimensional shadowplay, 1974; MUMOK, Vienna, 2004 THE BOXER REBELLION, 2 and 3-Dimensional shadowplay, 1975 AIR OF INCONSEQUENCE, 3-Dimensional shadowplay, 1977 Ken Jacobs At The Console Performing STICK TO YOUR CARPENTRY AND YOU WON`T GET NAILED, 1979 AUDIO-VISUAL VAUDEVILLE, 2 and 3-Dimensional shadow-play, 1982, 1994, 2000 Film-Performances of THE NERVOUS SYSTEM; a unique double-analysis projector set-up designed to derive 3-D from standard 2-D film, most often archival and other found-footage materials (all performance lengths are approximate). THE IMPOSSIBLE: Chapter One "Southwark Fair", 1975, (1 hr.) THE IMPOSSIBLE: Chapter Two "1896", 1979, (11 min.) THE IMPOSSIBLE: Chapter Three "Hell Breaks Loose", 1980, (25 min.) THE IMPOSSIBLE: Chapter Four "Schilling", 1980, (1 hr.) THE IMPOSSIBLE: Chapter Five "The Wrong Laurel", 1980, (7 min.) XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX, 1980, (90 min.) KEN JACOBS THEATER OF UNCONSCIONABLE STUPIDITY PRESENTS CAMERA THRILLS OF THE WAR, 1981, (90 min.) THE WHOLE SHEBANG, 1982, (70 min.) Ken Jacobs: Resume/Biography (continued) page 4 MAKING LIGHT OF HISTORY: THE PHILIPPINES ADVENTURE, 1983, (90 min.) TWO WRENCHING DEPARTURES, 1989, (2 hrs.) THE SUBCINEMA, 1990, (2 hrs.) NEW YORK GHETTO FISHMARKET 1903, 1993 (90 min.) BITEMPORAL VISION: THE SEA, 1994, (90 min.) THE MARRIAGE OF HEAVEN AND HELL (A Flicker Of Life), 1995 (90 min.) LOCO MOTION, 1996, (25 min.) FROM MUYBRIDGE TO BROOKLYN BRIDGE, 1996 (includes "Muybridge On Wheels" (animated slides), "The Georgetown Loop" (film), "Loco Motion" (Nervous System work), "Disorient Express" (film), "On The Bridge" (Nervous System work) 90 min. COUPLING, 1996 (1 hr.) ONTIC ANTICS STARRING LAUREL AND HARDY, 1997 (1 hr.) NEW YORK STREET TROLLEYS 1900, 1997 (25 min.) UN PETIT TRAIN DE PLAISIR, 1998 (25 min.) Further Performance Work utilizing THE NERVOUS MAGIC LANTERN; a single self-designed projector that creates 3-D cinema without use of use of film or video, a 3-D which, like Nervous System works, can be seen in 3-D by the unaided eye, the single eye. CRYSTAL PALACE (Chandeliers For The People), 2000 (40 min.) A PLACE WHERE THERE IS NO TROUBLE, 2002 (1 hr.) LOCAL HUBBLE (For Marilyn and Stan Brakhage), April 2003 (1 hr.) LOCAL HUBBLE II: La Conference Des Oiseaux, March 2004 (1 hr.) CELESTIAL SUBWAY Last Stop All Out (music by Black Dice), March 2004, (1 hr.) CELESTIAL SUBWAY LINES 2,3,4,(multiple performances; music by John Zorn assisted by Ikue Mori) May 2004 (45 min.) SEEING IS BELIEVING (music by Rick Reed) September 2004 (1 hr.) SALVAGING NOISE (music by John Zorn assisted by Ikue Mori) October 2004 (1 hr.) INTERSTELLAR LOWER EAST SIDE RAMBLE (music by John Zorn assisted by Ikue Mori) January 2005, (1 hr.) Live Nervous Magic Lantern performance, April 2007 KYTN ?Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland Live Nervous Magic Lantern performance Lumen, May 2007, Leeds, England Live Nervous Magic Lantern performance, NYFF, October, 2007 Live Nervous Magic Lantern performance, Bozar, October, 2007, Brussels, Belgium Live Nervous Magic Lantern performance, Sonic Acts XII, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, February, 2008 Live Nervous Magic Lantern performance, Avanto Festival, November, 2008 Ken Jacobs: Resume/Biography (continued) page 5 Live Nervous Magic Lantern performance, KYTN ?England, November, December, 2008 Live Nervous Magic Lantern performance, Rotterdam Film Festival, January, 2009 Live Nervous Magic Lantern performance, Harvard Film Archive, January, 2009 Videography of Ken Jacobs FLO ROUNDS A CORNER, 1999, 6 min., clr., silent, digital computer work NEW YORK STREET-TROLLEYS 1901, 1999, 10 min., b/w, sound A TOM TOM CHASER, 2002, 10-1/2 min., b/w, silent, digital computer work CIRCLING ZERO: Part One WE SEE ABSENCE, 2002, 114 min., clr., sound, KEEPING AN EYE ON STAN, 2003, 117 min., clr., sound, CELESTIAL SUBWAY LINES/SALVAGING NOISE, 2004, 108 min., clr., music by John Zorn assisted by Ikue Mori, a Tzadik DVD MOUNTAINEER SPINNING, 2004, 26 min., clr., music by Rick Reed KRYPTON IS DOOMED, 2005, 34 min., clr., sound (Superman radio-play 1940) INSISTENT CLAMOR, 2005, 22 min., clr., music by Margaret Shelton Meier LEEDS BRIDGE 1888, 2005, 6 min., b/w, silent SPIRAL NEBULA, 2005, 45 min., clr., music by Rick Reed INCENDIARY CINEMA, 2005, 1 min., clr., sound (2005 Viennale Festival cine-logo) LET THERE BE WHISTLEBLOWERS, 2005, b/w & clr., 18 min., sound composed to DRUMMING, Part 1 by Steve Reich ONTIC ANTICS STARRING LAUREL AND HARDY; BYE, MOLLY, 2005, b/w & clr., 90 min., sound NEW YORK GHETTO FISHMARKET 1903, 2006, b/w & clr., 2 hrs. 12 min., music by Catherine Jauniaux and Tom Cora, (Tzadik DVD released March 2007 with THE SURGING SEA OF HUMANITY) PUSHCARTS OF ETERNITY STREET, 2006, b/w, 10 min., silent TWO WRENCHING DEPARTURES, 2006, b/w, 90 min., sound CAPITALISM: CHILD LABOR, 2006, 14 min., clr.,music by Rick Reed CAPITALISM: SLAVERY, 2006, 3 min., clr., silent THE SURGING SEA OF HUMANITY, 2006, 10 min. 40 sec., clr., silent RAZZLE DAZZLE The Lost World, 2006, 92 min., b/w & clr., sound WE ARE CHARMING, 2007, 1 min., b/w, silent HANKY PANKY JANUARY 1903, 2007, 1 min., b/w, silent NYMPH, 2007, 3min., b/w, silent MY FAVORITE WIFE IMPROVED, 2008, 2 min., b/w, sound RETURN TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME, 2008, 93 min., b/w & clr., music by Malcolm Goldstein THE SCENIC ROUTE, 2008, 25 min., clr., sound THE GUESTS, 2008, 89 min., b/w, sound. Lumiere?s Entree D?Une Noce A L?Eglise; sequential film-frames combine, via slight convergence of the eyes, to produce (irrational) 3-D. Ken Jacobs: Resume/Biography (continued) page 6 ALONE AT LAST, 2008, 1 min. 53 sec., silent THE DISCOVERY, 2008, 4 min. 52 sec., silent LOVE STORY, 2008, 33 sec., silent HOT DOGS AT THE MET, (HD) 2008, 10 min., sound ANAGLYPH TOM, (TOM WITH PUFFY CHEEKS), 2008, 118 min., music by Michael Schumacher, Nisi Jacobs, Malcolm Goldstein; Movement by TOM TOM cast-members converted to (irrational) stereo via red/cyan spectacles WHAT HAPPENED ON 23rd STREET IN 1901, 2009, 13 1/2 min., silent ??SLOW IS BEAUTY? ?RODIN?, 2009, 51 min. clr., anaglyh 3-D recording (original performance 1974, revived 2004), sound BROOK, (HD) 2009, 2? 15?, clr., silent BOB FLEISCHNER DYING, (HD) 2009, 2?42?, clr., silent THE DAY WAS A SCORCHER, (HD) 2009, 7?48?, clr., silent JONAS MEKAS in KODACHROME DAYS, (HD) 2009, 3?19?, clr., silent WALKWAY, (HD) 2009, 8?24?, clr., silent excerpt from THE SKY SOCIALIST stratified, 2009, 18?, clr., sound BRAIN OPERATIONS, (HD) 2009, 22?22?, b/w, silent RON GONZALEZ, SCULPTOR, (HD) 2009, 20?, clr., sound GRAVITY IS TOPS, (HD), 2009, 10?M clr., sound Cine-Installations ZOOM, 1967 -viewer installed on a moving NY ferryboat as part of the NY Avant-Garde Festival. FESTOON, 1975 35 mm. film hung outdoors for individual viewing in (irrational) 3-D THE GUESTS, 1999, 3-D slide installation (74 min. continuous cycle) based on Lumiere?s ENTREE D?UNE NOCE A L?EGLISE, by Ken and Flo Jacobs Re-installed, with sound accompaniment by Nisi Jacobs, at the Maya Stendhal Gallery, NY, 2005 GIFT OF FIRE Nineteen (Obscure) Frames That Changed The World, 2007, 28 min., sound. Anaglyph 3-D; can be shown on a monitor or with a single projector, viewed through red/blue spectacles. 19 film-frames remain of artist-inventor Louis Le Prince`s 1888 movie-recording of Leeds Bridge, the first or near-first movie ever made. Here seen in stereo, Leeds Bridge (U.K.) is again active in deep space. Other 3-D comments regarding the rise of cinema are made. A 6`4 man among a 5`2 population, this giant "vanished" on the way to the patent office, quite possibly a feat of wizardry (skullduggery?) by The Wizard Of Menlo Park, Thomas Edison. Suspicions remain but now Edison is also gone and there`s only the film-fragment (originally over 200 frames) left to investigate. Also available as a Polaroid two-projector installation.
Nisi Jacobs
Little bits of skin (words)
Vidéo expérimentale | dv | couleur | 8:0 | USA | 2005
Frappée par la facilité avec laquelle quelqu?un d?aussi expressif et articulé que mon père à perdre son aptitude à parler en une nuit à cause d?une crises cardiaque, j?ai commence à filmer le texte de la ville. Le son enregistré est un montage de dialectes fabriqués par Peter Rose quand je l?ai enregistré lire un poème que j?ai écrit et mélangé avec une lamentation altérée synthétiquement. Des moments mutilés de l?écriture provenant de jours, au hasard, après la crise cardiaque se meuvent en des blocs de mots formels dans un environnement jouant entre la langage en tant que symbole, le langage en tant qu?image, et le langage en tant qu?expérience. N.J.
Nisi Jacobs est née et a grandi à New York. Elle est allé à la Stuyvesant High School où elle a étudié l?écriture créative avec Frank McCourt, l?auteur de ?Les Cendres d?Angela? et ?Tis?. Mlle Jacobs fait partie la Cooper Union for painting, une université subventionnée à New York, a reçu une bourse d?été pour étudier la peinture à Corona en Italie et fut diplômée d?un bac en arts appliqués. Elle enseigne en ce moment au Digital Editing du Graduate Center de l?université de New York ainsi qu?au Digital Editing and Sound Design de la New York Film Academy. Son ?uvre, «Little Bits of Skin (Words) ? fut récemment une partie d?un festival affilié au New York Film Festival programmé par Mark McElhatten au Anthology Film Archives ainsi qu?au Invisible Film Series du Millennium Film Workshop. Ses vidéos furent exposées en tant qu?installations vidéos et audio à la Maya Stendhal Gallery à Chelsea (New York). Elles ont aussi participé à l?exposition ??Fragment in Paradise? ? de Jonas Meka en 2005, au?Vital Signs?penchée sur la politique de l?exposition du groupe d?été (2005) et aussi comme une installation sonore de 70 min en Surrond 5.1 pour l?installation de la projection du film de Ken et Flo Jacobs titré ??The Guests??.Nisi Jacobs a amené sa vidéo à l?écran lors de festival à Paris, Berlin, Athènes en Grèce, à Hong Kong, au Royaume-Uni, à San Francisco, à New York mais aussi au Tribeca Film Festival (2003). Cette vidéo est en ce moment distribuée par la New York Film-Maker`s Cooperative, RoArtario Paris/Berlin, Light Cone à Paris. Nisi Jacobs fut la conservatrice de programmes mensuels de vidéos et films expérimentaux à la Phatory Gallery et fut invité à prendre part à deux programmes de cette série pour SYNCH FESTIVAL, la 2e Edition of Electronic Music & Digital Arts Festival in Lavrio, à Athènes, Grèce, en juillet 2005 ainsi que le HOWL festival lors de l?été 2005.
Nisi Jacobs
YOSHIKO
Vidéo expérimentale | dv | couleur | 5:0 | USA | 2007
YOSHIKO 5`, 2007, DV, A/V By Nisi Jacobs YOSHIKO, collage d'images volées et de vidéos auto-produites, est un hommage à mon amie de toujours, Yoshiko Masuzawa. Yoshika a émigré aux Etats-Unis au début des années soixante et habitait dans l'appartement du dessous. Elle a vécut pendant la guerre enfant et m'apprit des manières importantes; la seule fois où je la vis fâchée ce fût quand, enfants, nous avions commencé à jouer et à lancer du riz à table. Elle nous dit que le riz la garda en vit, elle et sa famille pendant la guerre, que c'était précieux et qu'il ne fallait pas le jeter. Comme les autres membres de sa famille, Yoshika souffrait, et cela avec une grâce immense, d un cancer du colon, pendant les dernières années. Elle a été récemment diagnostiquée avec une forme de cancer terminal et emménagea dans un hospice. Ce film est une tentative de conserver le regard et l'admiration que je porte à son esprit de tigresse, son humour et son humanité gracieuse. -Nisi Jacobs, 10/17/07
Nisi Jacobs is a video creator and video performance artist, born and raised in NYC. She holds a BFA in Painting from The Cooper Union, instructs video editing at NYU`s Graduate Center of Advanced Digital Applications, SohoEditors NYC, and Future Media Concepts, and programs the Sunset Sessions at Diapason Sound Art Gallery. She has instructed video editing at NYU`s Department of Film, Video and Broadcast, The New School, The Edit Center, New York Film Academy, and Harvestworks. Nisi performs live video with DRAW and Aeroplane Pageant and her videos have been shown in programs and festivals at the Madrid at the Circulo de Bellas Artes, in Paris at the Jeu De Paume Museum, SONAR festival at the Caracas Contemporary art museum, The Alejandro Otero Museum, and The national Cinématheque of Spain, at the Maya Stendhal Gallery, NYC, Manchester Metropolitan University, England, Tribeca Film Festival 2003, Sarah Lawrence College, The New School, Mass Art, The Donnell Library, San Francisco Cinematheque, roArtario Paris-Berlin, Glaz Art Festival, Hong Kong Film Festival, The Millennium, and Anthology Film Archives. In 2002, the soundtrack for her video "Dishing" was listed as KQED radio`s on-line choice of the month for EARSHOT: LISTEN TO A FILM WITHOUT PICTURES. She was recipient of the creative writing award by direction of Frank McCourt, author of Angela`s Ashes, upon grduation from Stuyvesant high school. Her work is distributed through RoArtario Paris/Berlin, Light Cone, Paris, New York Film-Maker`s Cooperative. Nisi curated monthly programs of video/film at The Phatory Gallery for the winter through summer months of 2005 in 5.1 surround sound and was invited to include two programs from this series for SYNCH FESTIVAL, the 2nd Edition of Electronic Music & Digital Arts Festival in Lavrio, Athens Greece, 2005, as well as for the HOWL Festival, 2005. She was Image/Sound Editor for STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH, the four-part internationally distributed 7-hour-forty-minute documentary (www.starspangledtodeath.com) by Ken Jacobs, which won The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award by the Los Angeles Film Critics in 2005 and enjoyed screenings at Argos Festival (Brussels), Centre Pompidou Museum (Paris, France), Festival International Nouveau Cinema (Montreal), Artopos (Athens, Greece), CAL ARTS (LA), Starz Denver Film Festival (Denver), Cinematexas (Austin, Texas), Oesterreiches Filmmuseum (Vienna), Rotterdam Film Festival (Holland), Hong Kong Film Festival, MoMa at the Gramercy Theater (NY), Chicago Filmmakers, The Anthology Film Archives (NY), San Francisco Cinematheque (CA), NY Film Festival at Lincoln Center, London Film Festival, The Donnell Library, and Slovenska Kinoteka (Ljubljana, Slovenia). Nisi is presently working with Aeroplane Pageant on live projection performances with Aeroplane Pageant (www.aeroplanepageant.com), and has performed recently with the band at Bowery Ballroom, Mercury Lounge, PIANOS, Crazy Donkey, and Grace Gallery, and with electronic sound artist and composer Michael J. Schumacher (www.michaeljschumacher.com) on video/sound collaboration called DRAW. An interview with Nisi Jacobs and Family distributed through LOGOS JOURNAL ONLINE can be read at www.logosjournal.com/issue_4.3/jacobs.htm. Distribution: The New York Film-Makers Cooperative RoArtario Paris/Berlin Light Cone Paris