Movies: Roger Jacoby

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...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

Three friends watch All About Eve....

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

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

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...