Blankets for Indians (2012)

Blankets for Indians blends a stereoscopic study of water spurting from New Yorks City Hall fountain with an intimately detailed portrait of an Occupy Wall Street march While in the process of shooting the fountain in 2012 Jacobs serendipitously turned his camera toward a large protest marching to Zuccotti Park in support of Occupy Wall Street The unexpected connection gives the film new life seamlessly moving between sensual observation and political commentary reflection and abstraction Using freezeframes text and 3D manipulation Jacobs questions the contemporary conditions of sociopolitical struggle its relation to aesthetics and the labor necessary to produce both