The Georgetown Loop, Ken Jacobs, 1996
First screened as part of Jacobs Nervous System film performance, The Georgetown Loop is based on an archival film from 1903. Jacobs pairs with its mirror double to produce a kaleidoscopic twoscreen 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. Writes Jacobs: Ive called it the first landscape film deserving of an Xrating, and that it is, yet its secret subtitle is I must whisper (Celestial Railway).
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