David Hudson at The Current:
“Eisenstein said the power of film was to be found between shots,” Ken Jacobs told Víctor Paz Morandeira in a 2015 Notebook interview. “Peter Kubelka seeks it between film frames. I want to get between the eyes, contest the separate halves of the brain. A whole new play of appearances is possible here.”
On Sunday, that perpetually evolving lifelong project came to an end. Just four months after his wife, artist Flo Jacobs, passed away, Ken Jacobs died. He was ninety-two. “While the official cause of death was from kidney failure,” said their son, filmmaker Azazel Jacobs, “life without his collaborator and partner since 1960 was unimaginable for so many, especially him.”
Talking to R. Emmet Sweeney in Metrograph Journal a few years ago, Jacobs recalled meeting Florence Karpf on a beach one afternoon. He’d been drawing with paints on cardboard, and while at first she took him for a “jerk,” she then “saw the drawings and said, ‘Yep, I’ll take him.’” Years later, the couple wound up in a fourth-floor walk-up in Lower Manhattan that Jim Knipfel, who interviewed Ken Jacobs for the Brooklyn Rail in 2006, described as “a comfortably cluttered maze.”
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