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Jerry
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New and
Current: * Ecce Homo on YouTube
- 57,000+ views * Watch Via
Dolorosa on YouTube * Review of Is
What Was by Amy Defibuagh * Article on
production of Is What Was
* The Jack Smith
Film Restoration Archive: * IMDB |
New Film: The Production
of this film was interrupted in 2000 in order to complete the restoration of
the films of Jack Smith. This
past summer the final cut was made, the remix of the sound completed, and it
was screened at T.I.E. The Mystery School is part of a found footage film cycle called “The Way of
the World.” It was created from
discarded 16mm educational films dealing with hygiene, religion, reading
skills, philosophy, history, and gay sex education. Images from The
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Photograph/Video/Film Installation Five Flaming
Days in A Rented World Shards and Remains by
Jerry Tartaglia and Sean
Kirk Large
format photographs reproducing the discarded shards from the restoration of
Jack Smith’s films. “Experimental Film is when the end of the film is stuck
to reel in dirty scotch tape and when you start to rewind you don’t put your
finger on the tape to make sure it doesn’t separate from the reel.” Jack Smith The
images in Shards and Remains are
created from Jack Smith’s garbage. These are the remains that had to be
removed from the abandoned junk that is called “The Art of Jack Smith” which
itself was saved from the dumpster. These scraps were swept off the floors of
the editing rooms where the restoration of his films took place. Hair, NYC roach feces, dust particles from
the destruction of Atlantis that still float in the atmosphere, and feather
dander from the vultures of the Uptown Cocktail Party Crowd can all be seen
stuck to the celluloid or snagged in the sprocket holes. Jack
re-edited his films while performing/presenting them. He used scotch tape,
masking tape, gaffers tape, paper tape, PressTape, or any tape that was
handy. In restoring the films, these
“splices” often had to be excised. Each
image is digitized re-contextualized, and enlarged to a degree that heightens
the usual perception of a film splice. Each encapsulates the moment of
juncture in the celluloid filmmaking of Jack Smith in which Beauty meets the
Dust. |
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Jack Smith
Film restoration by Jerry Tartaglia Jack Smith in Sinbad of Baghdad
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