The lights of downtown New York dimmed when we lost Ken Jacobs and Flo Jacobs last year. To Save and Project presents a special tribute to these giants of independent cinema with the world premiere of Ken Jacobs’s Baud’lairian Capers (1963) in a new MoMA digital restoration, paired with a screening of his favorite Yiddish film, Sidney Goldin’s His Wife’s Lover (1931). The event is introduced by J. Hoberman, who will also be signing copies of his new book Everything Is Now: Primal Happenings, Radical Music, Underground Movies, and the 1960s New York Avant-Garde outside Titus 2 from 6:15-7pm.

Baud'lairian Capers / Zayn Vaybs Lubovnik (His Wife's Lover) with J. Hoberman (Introducer)

A special tribute to Ken and Flo Jacobs, giants of independent cinema, featuring two films. One is a newly restored Ken Jacobs film and the other is his favorite Yiddish film, His Wife's Lover, featuring the brilliant comedian Ludwig Satz. Jacobs' first major film after Blonde Cobra. This comic romance presaged elements of his 1968 feature The Sky Socialist.