Roger Jacoby Movies

Experimental filmmaker Roger Jacoby animates his muse, Ondine, as the villainous Scarpia in snippets from Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca." Freely mixing...

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...

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

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.

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