Window Display: POPEYE SEES 3D – 
In memoriam Ken und Flo Jacobs

During the Berlinale (12.–22.2.), we are showing a film by Ken and Flo Jacobs in our window display at Gerichtstraße 53: POPEYE SEES 3D (USA 2016). Pioneers of American avant-garde cinema, the couple died last year. Since the 50s, the films and “Nervous System” performances by Ken Jacobs, which he developed close collaboration with his wife, painter Flo Jacobs, have left a lasting impression on international experimental film. The Jacobs had very close links to Arsenal, with the two of them having spent a year in Berlin at the invitation of the DAAD. Over the decades, their films were shown again and again at Arsenal as well as at the Forum and Forum Epxanded. A large selection of them can be found in the Arsenal archive.

POPEYE SEES 3D is a collection of “eternalisms”: using a unique process patented by Jacobs, stereoscopic miniatures of New York street scenes are created. The three-dimensional effect of the images is visible without special glasses and, paradoxically, appears strongest when only seen with one eye. (Uli Ziemons)