Home | Movies By Year | Movies from 1969
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (film)
Buy Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (film) now from AmazonFirst, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the movie. And once you've experienced the movie, tell everyone what you thought about it.
Wikipedia article
'Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son' is a 1969 American experimental film made by Ken Jacobs.
Summary
In a meticulous experiment in rephotography, Jacobs deconstructs, manipulates, and recontextualizes a small fragment of found footage: a 1905 film showing a group of people chasing a thief through a barn, (shot and directed by G.W. Billy Bitzer),[http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/576872/Tom-Tom-the-Piper-s-Son/ TCM.com] rescued via a paper print filed for copyright purposes with the Library of Congress," according to Jacobs.[http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=12&year=2013#showing-41939 Anthology Film Archives: Film Screenings] Jacobs' refashioning of the footage is an essayistic meditation on the nature of cinematic representation; in the words of 'Chicago Reader' critic Fred Camper, it is "a film about watching movies."[http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/tom-tom-the-pipers-son/Film?oid=1049974 Chicago Reader]
Legacy
The film is considered a landmark in avant-garde and structural filmmaking, and remains Jacobs' best-known work.[http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/tom-tom-the-pipers-son/Film?oid=1049974 Chicago Reader] It was inducted to the National Film Registry in 2007, and is part of Anthology Film Archives' "Essential Cinema" repertory.[http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/programs/essential-cinema Anthology Film Archives: Film Screenings]
See also
* List of American films of 1969
* 1905 in film
* Metafilm
References
Buy Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (film) now from Amazon
<-- Return to movies from 1969