Krypton Is Doomed
(2005, DVD, 34 min)
This work is derived from one of my Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated
projector and use neither film nor video. Highly stroboscopic and hallucinatory, these kinetic performances result in
otherworldly spaces and plays of near-abstraction and suggestive imagery. In Krypton Is Doomed, the audio
accompaniment to the shifting visuals is an installment of a Superman radio play — the first ever broadcast, in 1940.
KEN JACOBS