Your apartment is staring back at you. Jacobs made sure of it.
Jacobs applies his exacting digital techniques to footage of his New York City working and living space.
Direction
Jacobs' relentless digital interrogation of mundane space.
Editing
Temporal manipulation that turns 16 minutes into eternity.
Director
Ken Jacobs
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jacobs, godfather of American avant-garde cinema, spent decades turning his own living spaces into experimental laboratories—this is essentially a home movie from hell.
The 'exacting digital techniques' likely reference his signature Nervous System performances, where he manipulates found footage through proprietary projectors to create impossible temporal experiences.
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