First screened as part of Jacobs' "Nervous System" film performance, The Georgetown Loop is based on an archival film from 1903, which Jacobs pairs with its mirror double to produce a kaleidoscopic two-screen projection. The original film depicts a journey shot from the cab of a train passing through the Colorado Rockies, and, in this hypnotic new form, comes to suggest the movement of consciousness itself.
Direction
Jacobs transforms archival footage into pure cognitive cinema.
Editing
Mirror doubles create impossible geometries of motion.
Cinematography
1903 footage reborn as psychedelic landscape.
Director
Ken Jacobs
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'Nervous System' performances used two projectors manipulated live by Jacobs, making each screening unique.
Jacobs pioneered 'structural film'—this is essentially a 1960s avant-garde time machine hijacking Edison-era technology.
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