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March 08, 2008
[S08] One Piece: Momma's Man, Azazel Jacobs
A Sundance debut, Azazel Jacobs' emotionally naked Momma's Man is the small-scale, small-budgeted story of a thirtysomething man who visits his New York parents in their artifact-stuffed rent-controlled Chambers Street loft and finds he can't return to his wife and child but instead curls up into all kinds of stalling tactics. (Talk about kammerspiel.) As a dry comedy about clinical depression, it's a wondrous monument, as well as a tribute to the home and lives of his mother and father, filmmaker Ken Jacobs and artist Flo Jacobs. Jacobs shot on 35mm, as he did with his giddy earlier feature, GoodTimesKid (scheduled for release on DVD by Benten Films). In this moment, Jacobs talks about why it's important for him to originate (or at least finish) his work on celluloid. [Below, the trailer for GoodTimesKid, a sweet short in its own right, and "Plexi Beat," a video by Jacobs and Sara Diaz.]
Posted by Ray Pride at March 8, 2008 04:14 PM
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