From Cinema Rediscovered 2023 Film Critics’ Workshop, half reflection: Windows and Mirrors on Film by Jacob Rose is a video essay commission in response to the 7th edition of the festival.
Jacob Rose is a current Film and English student at the University of Bristol. Jacob began understanding art through theatrical performance, before moving to other fields. In 2018, he made a fairly bad song about an Artificial Intelligence who enjoyed eating religious icons of the world. Since then, they’ve been producing better projects, working with the BFI Film Academy, The Company Ltd., and other creatives to create short films, archive-based narratives, documentaries, and video essays. Strung between fiction and non-fiction, truth and performance, he has chosen not to specialise within the worlds of film (at least not until it is brought upon him by outside forces).
“Life has to break through art, windows have to reflect. It's a car crash that we don't intend, that can hurt us, but that we must hit anyway. When watching my video, even if you take away nothing else, I hope you see your silhouette in your screen, at least once.” Jacob Rose
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