The Whirled (2007)

Ken Jacobs writes The first two sections were shot around Jacks loft on Reade Street on two 100 16 mm rolls Sunday morning following Saturdays sacrifice I saw there was another 50 feet left In an impromptu way very different from my initial fastidious artfilm approach I quickly filmed Jack on the roof alongside his loft The results had us falling onto the floor and I would never be an artfilm truebeliever again After years of shooting my raging epic STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH starring Jack as The Spirit Not of Life But of Living and after a few months of being on the outs with each other we got together summer of 61 in Provincetown for one last stab at friendship and the making of a film In 1963 a snatch of Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice was shown on TV I had somehow been invited to participate in a TV quiz program called Back Your Hunch Or was it Hunch Your Back