Ken Jacobs is one of the most wildly creative and influential film artists and teachers in the history of the medium, and Kino Classics is proud to present this two-disc selection from his vast body of work (additional titles will be available digitally via Kino Now). Jacobs, born in Brooklyn, NY in 1933, studied Abstract Expressionism with Hans Hofmann before turning to filmmaking – where he became a prolific member of the underground scene, along with contemporaries Jonas Mekas, Jack Smith, and Stan Brakhage.

The American artist Kevin Jerome Everson has created a remarkable body of moving image work that co-exists within film and art exhibition contexts. With a sense of place and history, his films, shot primarily on 16mm, combine scripted and documentary moments with touches of formalism. The focus is on craft and duration, and the gestures and tasks caused by certain physical and socio-economic conditions in the lives, labour and leisure of working-class Black Americans and people of African descent.

Blu-ray anthology of Japanese artist Jun Kurosawa’s short films presented by KRAUT FILM.

Reflected light of water’s surface and sunlight that penetrates glass, the shadow of the blue sky and things. In the darkness of a theater space, the fixed light on a film becomes various modes through tungsten light. Selected experimental works by Japanese filmmaker "Jun Kurosawa" that one would be attracted by the mystique and beauty of a film.