"A Good Night for the Movies precipitated a form of celluloid primary-process thinking."
Hoberman's write up on Joe Dante's The Movie Orgy and Ken Jacobs' A Good Night for the Movies (II): 4th of July by Charles Ives by Ken Jacobs is a review piece that certainly fits in the current discussion of the digital takeover. Hoberman describes attending the Good Night for the Movies screening where, "Ken kept climbing into the projection room, and over theater seats, orchestrating and conducting everything," as films where shown all over the almost empty cinema for 24 hours, "at various speeds, on top of or alongside each other, their soundtracks silenced or merged." Jacobs started this project after getting a $300 grant for a project involving the projection of old Hollywood films on 16mm throughout different rooftops in NYC directly into the sun. As Hoberman notes, Jacobs does the opposite by projecting the films in a tunnel-like cinema. He used the $300 grant to rent the films.
Still from God's Step Children, Oscar Micheaux's 1938 film which Jacobs finished the 24-hour screening with
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