Ulysses in the Subway

March 23 · Regal Riviera · 5:30 P.M.

Ken + Flo Jacobs and OpenEndedGroup, 2016, 59 minutes

“Bridges the century-wide gap that separates it from the earliest days of cinema, looking to the future as it conflates cinema’s analogue past and digital present.” — Giovanni Marchini Camia, Mubi’s The Notebook

An electric collaboration between avant-garde icon Ken Jacobs, his wife Flo Jacobs, and two of the founding members of acclaimed multi-disciplinary collective OpenEndedGroup, Paul Kaiser and Marc Downie. Based off of an audio recording of Ken’s journey through New York’s labyrinthine subway network, Ulysses in the Subway transforms ambient sounds and voices into a sublime virtual arena, all via a custom-made sound-analysis algorithm.

preceded by
Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat 3D

Auguste & Louis Lumière, 1935, 1 minute

The iconic actuality film of a train pulling into a late 19th-century station — an accidental horror film that, legend has it, sent some of its inexperienced audience running for their lives in 1896 — was remade forty years later as part of a small handful of 3D tests the Lumière brothers made for the 1935 French Academy of Science. This stereoscopic version offers one of the simplest and most effortlessly euphoric film experiences that you can have — like seeing all of cinema history compressing at once into a single minute.