Things to Come

Things to Come

Things to Come

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Things to Come

2019

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Documentary

Animation

Overview

Jacobs’s hypnotic “3-D” adaptation of New York 1911, a long-forgotten Swedish documentary restored by MoMA in 2017, is representative of his current work.

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