Friday 19 September 2008, 19.00

'The heartwarming story of a boy who didn’t know it’s wrong to steal. Running off with the pig seemed like a good idea at the time.'

In a contemporary riff on one of his landmark works, the influential experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs uses new technology to both interrogate and arouse a theatrical tableau, shot in 1905, based on Hogarth's Southwark Fair. The antique film print is probed, exploded and reconstituted in the digital domain with radical ingenuity and infectious wit. This extraordinary new work teaches us how to see.

Programme duration 1 hour and 45 minutes

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£5 (£4 concessions), booking recommended
This work uses flickering imagery and is not suitable for those susceptible to photo-sensitive epilepsy.

    

Curated by Mark Webber for tank.tv and Tate Modern.

A retrospective of Ken Jacobs’ films will be shown on 1st October – 30th November 2008.

Join us after the screening for wonderful cakes kindly provided by Patisserie Valerie and drinks generously supplied by Kirin and Firefly.