su 18/09 8:30 pm | closing night: ken jacobs & takashi makino

To bring our festival to a fitting close, we have once again chosen a program that should promise an intense audio-visual experience. With the pairing of Ken Jacobs' Globe and Takashi Makino's cinéma concret, the closing program brings together two generations of filmmakers who, despite their different working methods and formats - Ken Jacobs' film will be shown as a 16mm print, while Makino's films will be screened exclusively digitally - are united by a philosophy they share: to enable viewers to see in a new way. In our case, this is made possible by the use of special filters (Jacobs) and glasses (Makino) to create a 3D effect during the screening. Unlike in commercial cinema, where this new technology was gradually trivialised and served solely as an argument to justify higher ticket prices, the two filmmakers use three-dimensionality to put us in a situation of wonder at the breathtaking possibilities of cinema - which is how viewers must have felt in 1890s when they saw moving images projected for the first time.

Globe

D: Ken Jacobs, 16mm (3D), colour, sound, 22 min, 1971

cinéma concret

D: Takashi Makino, dcp, colour and b&w, sound, 24 min, 2015

Ken Jacobs - GLOBE (1971)
Ken Jacobs - GLOBE (1971)
Takashi Makino - CINEMA CONCRET (2015)
Takashi Makino - CINEMA CONCRET (2015)