Friday | February 6, 2009 7:00 pm

The Nervous Art of Ken Jacobs
Short Films

Ken Jacobs and Flo Jacobs in Person
$10 Special Event Tickets

Short films by Ken Jacobs introduction and post-screening discussion with Ken Jacobs and HFA Director Haden Guest.

PROGRAM

The Whirled

Directed by Ken Jacobs.
US, 1956-63, digital video, color and b&w, 16 min.

The Whirled comprises four short films: Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice (1956), Little Cobra Dance (1956), Hunch Your Back (1963) and Death of P’Town (1961).

Little Stabs at Happiness

Directed by Ken Jacobs.
US, 1958-60, 16mm, color, 18 min.

Window

Directed by Ken Jacobs.
US, 1964, 16mm, color, silent, 12 min.

Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896

Directed by Ken Jacobs.
US, 1990, 16mm, black & white, 11 min.

Krypton is Doomed

Directed by Ken Jacobs.
US, 2005, digital video, color, 34 min.

February 6 – 8, 2009

The Nervous Art of Ken Jacobs

August 21–October 19

The Cold Heart is More Precious than Diamonds. The Cinema of Graham Greene

September 11–October 30

João César Monteiro, Poet-Provocateur

September 12

Marathon '77 All-Night Movie Marathon

September 18–November 15

Marie Antoinette and Friends, Three Films by Sofia Coppola

September 19–December 12

Nostalgia, A Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque Program

September 27–28

The Adventures of Lotte Reiniger

October 2–18

The Human Condition

October 23–November 20

Great Expectations: British Postwar Cinema, 1945 – 1960

November 6–9

The Nervous Art of Ken Jacobs
Short Films

The Whirled

Little Stabs at Happiness

Window

Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896

Krypton is Doomed