From: Ochiva, Dan (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Mar 10 2004 - 19:23:13 PST
Scott,
Will this be showing in NYC?
I think a wonderful aspect of Roger's work was that he self-processed much of the color film, often along with the optical soundtrack. The results could be fabulous.
Dan
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From: Scott Berry [mailto:email suppressed]
Sent: Wed 3/10/2004 4:41 PM
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Subject: [toronto] Roger Jacoby screening Saturday 3/13
Hello frameworks -- forgot to send this to the weekly listing. Thanks!
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>Dream Sphinx
>Films by Roger Jacoby
>Saturday March 13, 2004 @ 8 p.m.
>@ Cinecycle, 129 Spadina Ave. (down the lane)
>Guest curated by Scott Berry & Chris Kennedy
A Roger Jacoby film is both of its time and highly original. Influences of
Jack Smith's operatic extravaganzas and Warhol's serial portraiture readily
show up (Jacoby borrowed even more from Warhol: he ran away with superstar
Pope Ondine to Pittsburgh). The tension of these influences - that of scale
and intimacy, spontaneity and repetition - are bathed by Jacoby in his own
painterly and personal vision. Trained as a painter, Roger Jacoby translated
his flair for colour and abstraction into his films through a mastery of
colour hand-processing. His resulting films, filled with densely manipulated
images and sounds and an outlandish and willing cast, transform elements of
the everyday into Bizetian burlesques.
The films he made over his ten years of filmmaking showcase his textured,
intimate and exquisite approaches. Futurist Song, his first film, shows
coloured stain-glass patterns which directly reference early modernist
painting and the colour sense of Paul Klee. Dream Sphinx goes back even
further, inventing a Victorian Eden where Sally Dixon and a dapper Ondine
cavort in a garden of earthly delights. The effects of these films is one of
humour, poignancy, visual beauty and familial love.
The centerpiece of his work is the two-part How to Be a Homosexual.
Completed three years before his untimely death, the film weaves together
vignettes from his life with meditations on illness and expectant mortality.
These companion films are Jacoby's mind and body dialectic, demonstrating
that the mind takes wild flights of fancy in service to the human spirit,
but that are grounded by the body, which requires love, tending and care.
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>Programme:
>Futurist Song 1974, 16mm, colour, 7m, silent
>Dream Sphinx, 1978, 16mm, colour, 12m, sound
>Pearl and Puppet, 1979, 16mm, colour, 15m, sound
>How to Be A Homosexual, Part I, 1980, 16mm, 35m, sound
>How to Be A Homosexual, Part II, 1982, 16mm, 12m, silent
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