INDETERMINATE CINEMA: KEN JACOBS - STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH

Star Spangled To Death
1957-2003, col./b&w, English spoken, 393’

14:00 interview with Ken Jacobs
15:00 part 1+2 (with short break inbetween)
18:00 dinner
20:00 part 3+4 (with short break inbetween)

This Magnum Opus by Ken Jacobs was in the making for almost half a century. Initiated in 1957 as one of his “urban-guerilla-cinema” projects with avant-garde legend Jack Smith, this film developed into a 6-hour-plus social criticism of the U.S. which, in his words, was “stolen and dangerously sold-out”. Footage of his own is combined with fragments from documentaries, cartoons, musicals and educational films, as a reflection on such issues as race and religion, war addiction and the monopolisation of wealth. A splendid immersion in clownish euphoria and political despair.

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