Case Studies: Ken Jacobs, Bitemporal Vision: The Sea, 1994

John Gartenberg was curator at the Museum of Modern Art film department and is now President of Gartenberg Media Enterprises, Inc., New York.

"Ken Jacobs is one of the great contemporary avant-garde filmmakers. His creative enterprise now spans almost a half century of active work, incorporating such diverse projects as shadow plays, motion-picture films (Tom Tom the Piper’s Son, 1969–71), Nervous System performances (Bitemporal Vision: The Sea, 1994), and digital video pieces (Flo Rounds the Corner, 2001). Coursing throughout many of these creations are visual strategies in which the artist plays the flat surface of the two-dimensional image against the perception of depth." (...)

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