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

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

July 5–October 27

Melville et Cie.

September 6–November 7

Psychedelic Cinema

September 29–December 1

Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

October 3–7

The Shochiku Centennial Collection

October 18–November 3

António Campos and the Promise of Cinema Novo

sepia photo of Artie Freedman in silhouette with a video camera at show

November 8

Boston Punk Rewound / Unbound. The Arthur Freedman Collection

November 9–December 9

The Yugoslav Junction: Film and Internationalism in the SFRY, 1957 – 1988

November 10–24

From the Jenni Olson Queer Film Collection

a mausoleum that looks like a miniature Spanish cathedral, next to a variety of others, against an evening sky

November 11

The Nervous Art of Ken Jacobs
Short Films

The Whirled

Little Stabs at Happiness

Window

Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896

Krypton is Doomed