Lady Louise

Stylized, black and white biography of Frances Farmer by author Lynne Tillman and Sheila McLauglin.

Made in response to the death of his friends Bob Fleischner and Jack Smith, who died within one week of each other in 1989, this feature includes footage from Jacobs’s Star Spangled to Death showing Smith perambulating through downtown Manhattan, as well as views of Fleischner from Jacobs’s 1961 short The Whirled.

A man fondles objects, looks at himself in the mirror, poses in different clothes, smiles and makes faces at the camera while his voice on the soundtrack speaks of his despair, makes impressionistic statements and little songs, quotes Greta Garbo and Maria Montez, tells the story of a lonely little boy and tells the story of a woman named Madame Nescience who dreams of herself as the Mother Superior of a convent of sexual perversion.

Two men dressed as children jump up and down, ad nauseum

"An encounter at Coney Island both sweet and sad, between Jerry (Sims) and Barbara (Kahn), and the filmmakers, himself!" - B. F.