• Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896
  • Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896
  • Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896
  • Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896
  • Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896

A film consisting of three travellings filmed in the late nineteenth century in Paris, Venice, and Cairo, from a train, a gondola, and a sailing boat, respectively. A red sign in the middle of the film marks the image’s return which then moves backwards, returning to the beginning of the film. The project is called Opening the Nineteenth Century: (not the 20th). The travellings performed at the time symbolically represent the beginning of cinema’s history and are reshown in reverse, symbolizing that the cinema is retrospective in its structure, always transforming itself when it goes back to the past. Screening in analogic 3D.

Ken Jacobs

1933, Brooklyn, Nova York, EUA. Realiza filmes desde o fim dos anos 1950. Sua obra se divide em três grandes pilares: filmes-colagem, filmes-estudo e filmes sensoriais. Neste último, se encaixa seu projeto Nervous Magic Lanter, do qual este filme faz parte.

  • Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896
  • Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896
  • Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896
  • Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896
  • Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896