Jakobois Movies

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011....

Magical Super-8 (shown on 16mm) single frame portrait of the Notre Dame cathedral featuring luminous light and a dense score incorporating players...

All of history, that of Christ or any other, permeates the world, leaves its mark, modifying and informing history, and all that the human reproduces...

The tetralogy pieces are dominated by the concept and presence of death, foreclosure, fetal vertigo. As such, CRISTAUX is a real descent into an...

"Sounds of images" come to me from the windows overlooking rue Saint-Maur (the former pilgrims' path to Saint-Denis) and suddenly make me want to...

Lacrima Christi is the longest of the over 150 films made by the Mexican filmmaker resident in Paris, Teo Hernández. Part three of a tetralogy...

One of Mark Rappaport's later narratives (which won the Gold Hugo for Best First Feature at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1979),...

Teo Hernandez films waste and scrap found on the pavements of the streets of Paris. “Sidewalks are great subjects: garbage, objects and...

Eyes and ears travel discontinuously through everyday life and the sub-worlds of the city and the body. A fragmented and subjective day-to-day...

Reel 26 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.

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An autobiographical black-and-white short in which Teo Hernández portrays his Purépecha father by holding backlit old photographs atop...

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Through the use of portraits, shadow play and reflections, this series of exercises with and from body language compose a "four-handed" look against...

"...the main thing, both during filming and during editing, was not to pay attention, simply to wait to be surprised by a detail and let myself be...

In the early '80s, this collective of artists invented a style of cinema made in 4 hands, where each of the protagonists is also a filmmaker.