"I've said, 'Advanced filmmaking leads to Muybridge.' That's certainly true for me. Closing in on (to allow the expansion of) ever-smaller pieces of time is my personal ever-promising and inviting Black Hole..."-Ken JacobsTonight's performance uses early moving images-footage of trains, and film shot from trains-and includes slides, double projection, an audio piece, and Nervous System performances. "I need discordances, I need New York traffic noise. To be satisfied and interested in something, I need these spaces that visual noise opens up for me. I don't want to be in a controlled environment, which many works of art are. Totally controlled environments for the mind....I need ruptures, hiatuses, I need New York....[F]or me, the masterful sculpted completeness of a work can be suffocating. I need air shafts, provision for the unplanned....It's the spaces between elements that one breathes in..."-From an interview with Ken Jacobs

• Muybridge on Wheels (1996, 10 mins, B&W, animated slides). The Georgetown Loop (1995, 10 mins, B&W, 35mm). New York Street Trolleys (1900, 15-20 mins, B&W, 35mm, Nervous System). Three Little Pigs Times Square (1.5 mins, short audio piece). Marey (Animated slides, B&W, 10 mins). Disorient Express (1995, 22 mins, B&W, 35mm). On the Bridge (1996, 15 mins, B&W, 35mm, Nervous System). Stern's Duplex Railway (1905, 1.5 mins, B&W, 16mm)(Total program: c. 90 mins, plus introduction to The Nervous System)