Movies: Roger Jacoby

Once a hot spot, the Bowery Follies Cabaret is now just another broken down New York City nightclub populated with the last vestiges of vaudeville entertainers, misfits and a headliner known as Heaven. She, like the club, has been there too long. In ...

L'AMICO FRIED'S GLAMOROUS FRIENDS "...is built around a pas de deux by Ondine and Sally Dixon... with a quickness of breath and dryness of the throat one is apt to say, 'What is that!' as if peering into some exotic fog. The sometimes lovely and some...

Ondine and Sally Dixon "star" as ecstatic 19th century lovers in Jacoby's first home-processed film....

Experimental filmmaker Roger Jacoby animates his muse, Ondine, as the villainous Scarpia in snippets from Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca." Freely mixing melodramatic gestures from his actors with a ruined soundtrack of static and full-on textural experimen...

A few basic gestures, deliberately excluding indefinite states in between....

A portrait of the artist during a period of AIDS-related illness....

One of Roger Jacoby's earliest films, FUTURIST SONG represents Jacoby's transition from painting to film....

A hand-processed film made of excerpts from a compilation journal work....

Roger Jacoby is a filmmaker who makes unities out of contradictions....

Three friends watch All About Eve....

A hand-processed film of the filmmaker's sister showing a hand-puppet to her two young children....