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