Roger Jacoby Movies

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

Three friends watch All About Eve.

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.