Seeking the Monkey King
2011·United States·40 min.
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This digital video largely consists of valleys and hills of what look like crumpled foil that Mr. Jacobs, through his manipulations, has turned into landscapes that shift, undulate and seem to pop off the screen as if in 3D. Often tinted golden yellow and blue (colors used in the silent era usually to denote day and night), the images sometimes freeze and are amended by on-screen history lessons, political commentary, moments of sentiment and words of advice: “Read Marx
DirectorKen Jacobs
ScreenwriterKen Jacobs
MusicJ.G. Thirlwell
CinematographyKen Jacobs
Original titleSeeking the Monkey King