Sunday August 21, 2011, 2:00 pm

At the Downtown Independent Theater, 3rd and Main Street

Los Angeles Filmforum and LA 3D Club Present

Ken Jacobs 3D

Ken Jacobs in person!  Rooftop reception following the event.

**NOTE THE CHANGE IN TIME, PRICE AND LOCATION!**

$5 at the door for current LA3DClub members
$10 at the door for non-members (admission waived with USC Student ID)

Free to Filmforum Members

Los Angeles Filmforum and LA 3D Club are delighted to welcome avant-garde stereoscopic filmmaker Ken Jacobs back to Los Angeles.  Excerpts from Jacobs's 3D work will be shown and projected in both anaglyph or 3D without spectacles.  Selections will include excerpts from New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903 (1975), Celestial Subway Lines/Salvaging Noise (2005), Anaglyph Tom (2008), Nymph,  and more recent experimental work with Elbow Dance, Space Flaws and From Berkeley to San Francisco (2010).

Ken Jacobs has been making experimental and “underground” films in New York City for over fifty years.  With over thirty film and video works, Jacobs has also created 3D shadow plays, stereoscopic  magic lantern performances, art installations and sound pieces that deal with film, cinema history and the nature of the moving image.  Jacobs’ works have been canonized in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) and the Whitney Museum of American Art, which included him on its list of “100 Greatest Artist of the 20th Century.”

For decades, Jacobs has also explored stereoscopic aspects of cinema and how we see the motion picture image, inferring depth from a planar screen.   Jacobs was inspired to become a 3D filmmaker early in his career by the painter Hans Hofmann.  The act of filmmaking, for Jacobs, is an interrogation of both space and time.  “When he talks about what he learned from Hofmann, Jacobs most often talks about how Hofmann’s teaching provided him with a context for exploring ideas about space,” observes Michele Pierson.  “As it was for the cubists, the challenge for the artist, as Hofmann saw it, was to render space as movement, as the penetration of one moment into another; in a word, to render it in time.” 

The 3D screening will be punctuated with discussions and Q&A sessions between Jacobs, Filmforum’s Adam Hyman and film historian Ray Zone.  The event represents a rare opportunity for students of stereoscopic cinema and experimental film to meet with and see the work of an American independent film pioneer. 

OPTIC ANTICS The Cinema Of Ken Jacobs, Edited by Michele Pierson, David E. James, and Paul Arthur; published by Oxford University Press, is a newly released collection of essays on the work of Ken Jacobs.

Advance ticket purchase available through Brown Paper Tickets.  Click here to purchase. 

**NOTE** Paid parking is available at many parking lots in the adjacent area and street parking is free on Sundays. The theater is also only several blocks from the MTA Red Line.

There will be a second different screening with Ken Jacobs, co-presented by Filmforum at Cinefamily on Tuesday, August 23rd.

This screening series is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission; the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles; and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Special support provided by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.   Additional support generously provided by American Cinematheque.