The Georgetown Loop
Ken Jacobs • 10m
Ken Jacobs • United States • 1996 • Per Jacobs, "The first landscape film deserving of an X-rating."
Jacobs manipulates The Georgetown Loop (Colorado), archival footage shot in 1903 of a train that passes by the town of Georgetown, Colorado, near the Rocky Mountains. The mountain vista is mirrored back upon itself, resulting in a kaleidoscopic effect. In Jacobs’s words—"I've called it the first landscape film deserving of an X-rating, and that it is, yet its secret subtitle is — I must whisper — (Celestial Railway).”
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The Sky Socialist: Environs and Outakes
Ken Jacobs • United States • 2019
Additional footage from Jacobs’s elusive film The Sky Socialist.
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The Whirled
Ken Jacobs • United States • 1961
An experimental reworking of four short films—Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice (1956), Little Cobra Dance (1956), Hunch Your Back (1963), and Death of P'Town (1961).
