Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (film)
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| Directed by | Ken Jacobs |
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| Country | United States |
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son is a 1969 experimental film made by Ken Jacobs. The film is considered a landmark in avant-garde and structural filmmaking, and remains Jacobs' best-known work.[1] It was admitted to the National Film Registry in 2007, and is part of Anthology Film Archives' "Essential Cinema" repertory.[2][3]
In a meticulous experiment in rephotography, Jacobs deconstructs, manipulates, and recontextualizes a small fragment of found footage: a 1905 film showing a group of people chasing a thief through a barn, "shot and probably directed by G.W. ‘Billy’ Bitzer, rescued via a paper print filed for copyright purposes with the Library of Congress," according to Jacobs.[4] Jacobs' refashioning of the footage is an essayistic meditation on the nature of cinematic representation; in the words of Chicago Reader critic Fred Camper, it is "a film about watching movies."[5]
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References
- ↑ http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/tom-tom-the-pipers-son/Film?oid=1049974
- ↑ http://www.loc.gov/film/registry_titles.php
- ↑ http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/programs/essential-cinema
- ↑ http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=12&year=2013#showing-41939
- ↑ http: //www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/tom-tom-the-pipers-son/Film?oid=1049974
External links
- Jacobs discussing the work in 1969 at St. John's University
- Optic Antics, the first major academic survey of Jacobs' work, including Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
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