This work is derived from one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use neither film nor video. Highly stroboscopic and hallucinatory, these kinetic performances result in otherworldly spaces and plays of near-abstraction and suggestive imagery. In Krypton is Doomed, the audio accompaniment to the shifting visuals is an installment of a Superman radio play — the first ever broadcast, in 1940. This work highlights Jacobs' relentless experimentation with the very fabric of projected light.
Ken Jacobs
Director
Moonwalker70%
Coherence72%
The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act87%
201066%
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 279%
The Matrix82%
Pink Floyd: The Wall79%
Jackass: The Movie63%
Pandorum65%
Universal Soldier: The Return58%
Sleeper68%
Crimes of the Future60%
Close Encounters of the Third Kind73%
ARQ61%
Videodrome72%
Scary Movie 359%
Jackass 4.564%
Legion of Super-Heroes64%
RoboCop58%
Saturday Night66%
