Menken y Jacobs elegidos para la preservación

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menken_garden.jpgLa Biblioteca del Congreso (EEUU) ha anunciado los filmes seleccionados para el National Film Registry del año 2007. Entre los 25 filmes elegidos para la preservación futura por su importancia "cultural, histórica o estética" están los cláisicos experimentales Glimpse of the Garden (1957) de Marie Menken y Tom, Tom the Piper’s Son (1969-71) de Ken Jacobs. La selección del año pasado recogñia los filmes Early Abstractions #1-5,7,10 (Harry Smith, 1939-56) y Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania  (Jonas Mekas, 1971-72).

Glimpse of the Garden (1957)
Though Marie Menken’s volatile marriage to Willard Mass served as the inspiration for playwright Edward Albee in his 1962 play, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” her surprisingly joyful and simple films rate among the more accessible works of avant-garde filmmakers. The beautifully lyrical “Glimpse of the Garden” is a serendipitous visual tour of a flower garden set to a soundtrack of bird calls.

Tom, Tom the Piper’s Son (1969-71)
Ken Jacobs’ landmark avant-garde film reverently re-photographs an early cinema short of the fairy tale song to explore the parameters of film art.  A “structuralist film” masterpiece, Jacobs uses techniques ranging from slow and studied examinations of individual paper print images to probing experiments in manipulation of motion and light.