Part of Series

TOM TOM

Screening: Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son

Brisbane

Details

Part of OtherFilm / IMA
Where Institute of Modern Art
Date 6pm, Thursday, 22 April 2010

A rare screening of Ken Jacobs’s 1969 structuralist masterpiece, Tom, Tom, The Piper’s Son.

16mm print courtesy National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra. A joint project between OtherFilm and IMA.

Screening: Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son - WORKS

  • 125 mins
    Tom Tom the Piper's Son

    Ghosts! Cine-recordings of the vivacious doings of persons long dead. Preservation of their memory ceases at the edges of the frame. One face passes “behind” another on the two-dimensional screen. Seven infinitely complex cine-tapestries indicate a narrative-path not taken. My…