Thanatopsis
Short Films and Mid-Lengths
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10m
Directed by Beth B | 11 mins | 1991
In collaboration with the legendary Downtown performance artist/musician Lydia Lunch, Beth B creates a chilling yet poetic vision of despairing nihilism—a hypnotic narrative, as a beautiful young woman negotiates the banalities of life, as Lunch delivers a warning of inevitable destruction.
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Belladonna
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Window
Directed by Ken Jacobs | 12 mins | 1964
Jacobs, always interested in experiments in perception, uses his camera to contemplate the frame of a window and the exterior beyond, as he does conducting a scintillating experiment involving lenses and screens. Screening as part of a selection of five exp... -
Little Stabs at Happiness
Directed by Ken Jacobs | 15 m ins | 1963
A collection of smaller silent segments made between 1956 and ’63. Screening as part of a selection of five experimental shorts from the Brooklyn-born Jacobs, one of the most wildly creative and influential film artists and teachers in the history of the m...