More “Eternalisms” and Jacobs at his most explicitly political.

 
Capitalism: Child Labor 
Ken Jacobs | 2006 | USA | 14’ | digital | sound

“A stereograph celebrating factory production of thread. Many bobbins of thread coil in a great skylit factory space, the many machines manned by a handful of people. Manned? Some are children. I activate the double-photograph, composer Rick Reed suggests the machine din. Your heart bleeding for the kids? The children will surely be rescued and by their bosses! ‘Boys,’ they will say, ‘Have we got a war for you.’” (Ken Jacobs)

Seeking the Monkey King 
Ken Jacobs | 2011 | USA | 40’ | digital | sound

“The film could have well been called Kicking and Screaming but that only describes me in the process of making it, questioning its taste. Once the message kicked in it overrode all objection. The piece demanded J.G. Thirlwell’s music, normally way too overtly expressive for me as most of my stuff comes out of painting and is also to be absorbed in silence. Who will even notice visual innovation now, or what’s happening with time? Determining a place between two and three dimensions, pushing time to take on substance, is what I do. Seeking the Monkey King is a reversion to my mid-twenties and that sense of horror that drove the making of Star Spangled To Death.” (Ken Jacobs)

Another Occupation 
Ken Jacobs | 2011-12 | USA | 15’ | digital | sound

“‘Bangkok, is it? Spelled in an unfamiliar way.’ A black-and-white train ride along a jungle stream shows us military men in their pith helmets, keeping the ferns, trees, monkeys and natives in line. Sparse intertitles trigger further thoughts about the war economy.” (Ken Jacobs) 

With an introduction from Mark Webber.