Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (film)

Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
Directed by Ken Jacobs
Release dates
  • 1969 (1969)
Running time
 115 minutes
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]

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/tom-tom-the-pipers-son/Film?oid=1049974
  2. ↑ http://www.loc.gov/film/registry_titles.php
  3. ↑ http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/programs/essential-cinema
  4. ↑ http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=12&year=2013#showing-41939
  5. ↑ http: //www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/tom-tom-the-pipers-son/Film?oid=1049974

External links

  1. Jacobs discussing the work in 1969 at St. John's University
  2. Optic Antics, the first major academic survey of Jacobs' work, including Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
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