Jeffrey Babcock - the curator of Amsterdam’s underground cinema scene

Jeffrey Babcock is an American alternative film curator and cultural activist now in Amsterdam. As a promoter of independent film culture he is currently the programmer of several underground cinema venues throughout the city, where he places the films he screens into a historical, aesthetic, political and biographical context. As a student of Stan Brakhage, he developed a keen interest in experimental cinema and philosophy. He also has a keen eye for finding elements of experimental film-language beyond the strict limits of what is categorized as experimental film: from early science documentaries to contemporary Korean teenage films.

LYRICS:

Straight, while you watch and curate
Consume or create
Allowing eternity to enter

Free, like the sway of a tree
You shrug in its lee
This is the stillness that was never still

Silently dreaming together

Bright light, cutting our night sight
Guiding our inflight
To a new polarity

Big screen informing our dreams
Living our slow scenes
riding through realities

Between the light
Between the dark
Between the worlds

Right, a disguised fight
Machine guns of light
Doing the maths up to infinity

Apart, the flickering art
Somewhere smart
This is the magic of the cinema

Silently dreaming together

Bright light, cutting our night sight
Guiding our inflight
To a new polarity

Big screen informing our dreams
Living our slow scenes
riding through realities

Between the light
Between the dark
Between the worlds

And we are
The negative
Exposed to
A positive

The principles
Of photography
Rise us up
And set us free

Bright light, cutting our night sight
Guiding our inflight
To a new polarity

Big screen informing our dreams
Living our slow scenes
riding through realities

Between the light
Between the dark
Between the worlds