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Seeking the Monkey King

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Original title: Seeking the Monkey King
Year: 2011
Running time: 40 min.
Country: United States
Director: Ken Jacobs
Screenwriter: Ken Jacobs
Cast: Documentary
Music: J.G. Thirlwell
Cinematography: Ken Jacobs
Genre: Documentary | Half-length Film. Experimental Cinema
Synopsis: 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

Awards: 2011: National Society of Film Critics (NSFC): Experimental Film Award.

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Seeking the Monkey King

2011

Ken Jacobs

6.4

(28)