{"id":1151,"date":"2003-10-27T18:30:22","date_gmt":"2003-10-27T18:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2018-01-25T15:00:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T15:00:19","slug":"ken-jacobs-masterclass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/2003\/10\/27\/ken-jacobs-masterclass\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Jacobs Masterclass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"top\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<\/p>\n<p><b>KEN JACOBS MASTERCLASS<br \/>\n<\/b><b>Monday 27 October 2003, at 6:30pm<br \/>\n<\/b><b>London National Film Theatre NFT3<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>BENEATH CONSIDERATION: A LECTURE ON FAILURE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ken Jacobs has been one of the key figures of artist filmmaking of the past five decades. As a contemporary of Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage and Jonas Mekas, he was at the forefront of the New America Cinema movement that defined \u2018avant-garde film\u2019 in the 50s and 60s. Jacobs taught as Professor of Cinema at SUNY Binghampton for over 30 years, where his last course before retirement was on the subject of \u2018Stupidity\u2019. At the LFF in, 2000, he presented two sold out \u2018Nervous System\u2019 projection performances and this year he returns to London with his 6-hour video <i>Star Spangled To Death<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>In this masterclass on \u2018failure\u2019 he will argue that in achieving socially set objectives, we rule out the possibility of unimaginable discoveries. Much of what passes for success can lead to predictability, conceit and the curse of celebrity, while there can be many triumphs as a result of ineptitude and confusion. Incredible things can happen by following the \u2018wrong turn into adventure\u2019. The illustrated talk will include screenings and references to the work of filmmakers including Erich von Stroheim, Charlie Chaplin and Oscar Micheaux.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#top\">Back to top<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alina Rudnitskaya\u2019s humanistic approach to documentary filmmaking often brings out the humour in her chosen subjects. As an introduction to her work, this programme depicts three diverse groups of contemporary Russian women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-london-film-festival-2003","tag-london-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markwebber.org.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}