First Look 2026: Little Stabs (opens in new tab)

Behind the Eyes Hannah Bonner on Little Stabs (Avant-Garde Shorts) The Little Stabs program screens April 25 at Museum of the Moving Image’s as part of the 2026 First Look festival. In a 2020 interview with the Los Angeles Review of Books, American avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs reflected on his prolific career, concluding: “my fundamental interest…is [an] expansion of consciousness with all the take-for-granted or ignored ways of the world.” For Jacobs, a contemporary of Jack Smith and Sta...