L'amico Fried's Glamorous Friends
each frame is a shimmering painting with light.
Roger Jacoby
Filmography
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L'amico Fried's Glamorous Friends
Carmen Vigil, former Program Director of San Francisco Cinematheque, writes "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...Watch Movie
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Dream Sphinx
Ondine and Sally Dixon "star" as ecstatic 19th century lovers in Roger Jacoby's first home-processed film. Nickelodeon imagery, school children of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Botanical Conservatory. "As the strains of an aria rise, the grainy specks of Jacky's self-processed film begin to...Watch Movie
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Floria
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 experiments that simulate decayed nitrate film bursting...Watch Movie
Genres
- Adaptation / Theatrical / Operatic
- Avant-garde
- Avant-garde / Nonobjective
- Avant-garde / Silent
- Documentary / Process / Cinéma-vérité
- Drama / Costume Drama
- Drama / Melodrama
- Drama / Tragedy
- Ephemera
- International / Americas / North American / American
- Short / Documentary
- Short / Narrative
- Short / Non-Narrative
Recent Reviews
Futurist Song
reminiscent of Han Richter's work from the '20s plus Paul Sharits' investigation of film frames and film material's identity.
L'amico Fried's Glamorous Friends
...certainly a mind trip. a redux of lucid dreams and desires lost visions recaptured for a millisecond. like this film very much
Futurist Song
What surely was futuristic visual stimulation in 1972 comes off as old fashioned and quaint when compared to the graphic overload of modern day bullshit.
Dream Sphinx
I dreamt it was better!