Jump cuts, tinting and sudden changes in aspect ratio make for a pulsating spectacle. At once an archeologist and an innovator, Jacobs keeps on adapting old or inventing new technologies for exploring the potential of the illusion of depth and motion.
Also in this combined programme
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Day and Night
A hypnotising exploration of polarities: stillness and motion, 2D and 3D, positive and negative, colour and black-and-white, day and night.
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The Rodeo Trilogy
The Mayberry Practice Calf, Second Place and The Wooden Calf are three silent shorts about the practice and patience that lead to great performance
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Night Hunter
This eerie, allegorical homage to silent film star Lillian Gish is composed of approximately 4,000 handmade collages.
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Village, Silenced
Focus in this short remake is on how sound is used as a means of social control, and the larger historical implications of repetition.
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Conference (Notes on Film 05)
The face of fascism? This grotesque found-footage film combines close-ups of 65 actors playing Adolf Hitler in films made between 1940 and today.
Goose Weather
A visual oddity: a George Harrison album cover is explored as a visual counterpoint to a choral rendition of the text English Eccentrics.
Intermezzo (Notes on Film 04)
A director’s fascination for Chaplin’s acting style, takes on the look of an explosive pop promo here.
Maurice
Maurice, the semi-sophisticated owner of a porn cinema in Paris, sheds his skin and becomes a die-hard cinephile, who must take leave of his doomed
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2011
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2012
- Length
- 5"
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
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