Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1969)

Directed by

Ken Jacobs

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 55m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

Ken Jacobs rephotographs a 1905 silent film frame by frame. He transforms the original footage into a flickering abstract study of motion and texture.

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What happens

Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son is a 1969 American experimental film made by Ken Jacobs. It was made by rephotographing a 1905 film of the same name, directed by G. W. "Billy" Bitzer and released by Biograph. The film was inducted into the National Film Registry in 2007. Jacobs continued to revisit and rework the Biograph film, through film performances in the 1970s and 1980s and through the use of digital technologies in the 2000s. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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