https://jacobpascoe.ca Jacob Pascoe Mon, 30 Jan 2023 20:01:14 +0000 https://jacobpascoe.ca en https://jacobpascoe.ca/Main-page Mon, 30 Jan 2023 20:01:14 +0000 Jacob Pascoe https://jacobpascoe.ca/Main-page Short Films Music Videos Published Writing Unpublished Writing Short Films Back to top <img width="4608" height="3164" width_o="4608" height_o="3164" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d22eb774f899122709fda985c5803ad5c42f4cbc6481e9a5781fe629ef0c395d/urtext-day2-round1_1.25.2.jpg" data-mid="190968325" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d22eb774f899122709fda985c5803ad5c42f4cbc6481e9a5781fe629ef0c395d/urtext-day2-round1_1.25.2.jpg" /> URTEXT This is a movie about the creation of man from the perspective of his creator. I wanted to make a movie about how they had no idea what they were doing or talking about.Read more and watch...&nbsp; 2024Digital - 1.33:1 10:43Produced by Sophia Biedka Cinematography by Luke Strahm &nbsp; <img width="1738" height="1156" width_o="1738" height_o="1156" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fda024778eb947f989c8d3fbdd902d19a653057107aafc6b61532d3de1e9d8f0/Screen-Shot-2023-01-30-at-2.00.33-PM.png" data-mid="166685218" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fda024778eb947f989c8d3fbdd902d19a653057107aafc6b61532d3de1e9d8f0/Screen-Shot-2023-01-30-at-2.00.33-PM.png" /> IT CAME TO PASS IN THE TOWN OF OSHPITZIN This is a movie about two rabbis in the 18th century who come across a ghost town in murky back country roads. They’ve never been here before and they’ll never be here again. I wanted to make a movie that scared me the way being Jewish scares me sometimes. It’s a kind of ineffable fear. Read more and watch... 2021Digital - 1.66:1 17:38Produced by Evan Luchkow Cinematography by Brian Daniel Johnson Production Design by Rebecca Scherman &nbsp; <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d341cf1e949a1af24e1a599bb4e7ac97f7a14f030a329b6f5a7dc77c51c264bb/Still-3.JPG" data-mid="166694909" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d341cf1e949a1af24e1a599bb4e7ac97f7a14f030a329b6f5a7dc77c51c264bb/Still-3.JPG" /> FEAST This is a movie that takes place after the apocalypse about a man who has someone important taken from him. I wanted to make a movie that made people feel a little bit sick. And I wanted to make a movie in the desert.&nbsp; Read more and watch... 2019 Digital - 1.77:1 07:54 Cinematography by Sam Barringer Production Design by Caid Dow <img width="2048" height="1152" width_o="2048" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a081fa2375213735621eb265612416fb788e0343b720eed1d86825874b7cd94/Genesis-Still-1.jpg" data-mid="166695416" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3a081fa2375213735621eb265612416fb788e0343b720eed1d86825874b7cd94/Genesis-Still-1.jpg" /> GENESIS This was my thesis film for my BFA program. In it, a young man thinks his father is God. This is a movie about him and his mom.&nbsp; This was the result of everything I learned in film school and I had a lot of fun making it with my friends. Read more and watch... 2018Digital - 1.77:1 11:30 Produced by Ayden Ross Cinematography by Sam Barringer Music Videos Back to top <img width="2108" height="1134" width_o="2108" height_o="1134" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/327de359895d30879a823a888b5e566b3413cccbec04e45d05b629f5deead1c5/Screenshot-2025-02-10-at-1.45.07PM.png" data-mid="226358973" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/327de359895d30879a823a888b5e566b3413cccbec04e45d05b629f5deead1c5/Screenshot-2025-02-10-at-1.45.07PM.png" /> TO BE A CREATURE This is a song by Wallgrin. It’s from an album that isn’t out yet Read more... 2025Digital - 2.39:103:40Cinematography byLuke Strahm VFX by Shea Oracheski <img width="1361" height="761" width_o="1361" height_o="761" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/89ef948b4201ea38d527fcd46a96f231b2bc5708bcd11d2419ad914c58ac3094/Supersmeller-11.jpg" data-mid="197521493" border="0" data-scale="92" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/89ef948b4201ea38d527fcd46a96f231b2bc5708bcd11d2419ad914c58ac3094/Supersmeller-11.jpg" /> SUPER SMELLER This is a song by Doohickey Cubcile. It’s from the album “Super Smeller.” Read more and watch... 2023Digital - 1.66:102:54Cinematography byKate Smith VFX by Shea Oracheski <img width="1376" height="896" width_o="1376" height_o="896" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e9fbfe7f1c697f6c3513ba6aaeecd7995ce61d606da6da9f61ec1647dab14cb5/Screen-Shot-2023-05-25-at-7.01.23-PM.png" data-mid="180005852" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e9fbfe7f1c697f6c3513ba6aaeecd7995ce61d606da6da9f61ec1647dab14cb5/Screen-Shot-2023-05-25-at-7.01.23-PM.png" /> MATCHMAKER This is a song by Haley Blais from the album “Wisecrack.” Read more and watch... 2023Super 8 + Digital - 1.33:1 03:48 <img width="3012" height="1130" width_o="3012" height_o="1130" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8837777eaa38d37377b11fda20b5f8f9d85dda38fde1ba56521afe3695b5119e/wwffg.jpg" data-mid="166696905" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8837777eaa38d37377b11fda20b5f8f9d85dda38fde1ba56521afe3695b5119e/wwffg.jpg" /> WHEN WE FUCK FOR GOD This is a song by Tim the Mute from the album “Tim the Mute’s Fucky Sucky Free For All.” Read more and watch... 2022Digital - 2.39:103:51Cinematography byEvan Luchkow <img width="2048" height="1146" width_o="2048" height_o="1146" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f2d1159952719754cec96f8b1b1ff13cc62649711f6305cd35f4bbe11b2d6bf/Screen-Shot-2023-01-30-at-3.37.43-PM.png" data-mid="166697363" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f2d1159952719754cec96f8b1b1ff13cc62649711f6305cd35f4bbe11b2d6bf/Screen-Shot-2023-01-30-at-3.37.43-PM.png" /> COOLEST FUCKING BITCH IN TOWN This is a song by Haley Blais from the album “Wisecrack.” Read more and watch... 2022Digital - 1.66:105:17Cinematography bySam Barringer <img width="1464" height="870" width_o="1464" height_o="870" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64e1a7e5c4c76786a1a5bcd2dae0c28e5f3693a85e4aa4e599ba7fe3779c78b7/Screen-Shot-2023-01-30-at-3.38.24-PM.png" data-mid="166697417" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/64e1a7e5c4c76786a1a5bcd2dae0c28e5f3693a85e4aa4e599ba7fe3779c78b7/Screen-Shot-2023-01-30-at-3.38.24-PM.png" /> SOLACE This is a song by Kylie V from the album “Big Blue.” Read More and watch... 2021Digital - 2.39:104:03Cinematography bySam Barringer <img width="1764" height="874" width_o="1764" height_o="874" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7aadd160c283b6faf7bf35b14df645027654a57b38a493614ea0e9ed75d51536/Screen-Shot-2023-01-30-at-3.39.16-PM.png" data-mid="166697442" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7aadd160c283b6faf7bf35b14df645027654a57b38a493614ea0e9ed75d51536/Screen-Shot-2023-01-30-at-3.39.16-PM.png" /> BE YOUR OWN MUSE This is also a song by Haley Blais from the album “Below the Salt.” Read More and watch...&nbsp; 2020Digital - 2.39:104:20Cinematography bySam Barringer Production Design by Rebecca Scherman Published Writing Back to top <img width="1322" height="850" width_o="1322" height_o="850" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d784372a241dc456bf3af808f7e56262b7b522621f551929d32ed7dc15ada6ab/Painting.-jpeg.png" data-mid="238988802" border="0" data-scale="86" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d784372a241dc456bf3af808f7e56262b7b522621f551929d32ed7dc15ada6ab/Painting.-jpeg.png" /> &nbsp; “1c2d94ca50aba4f6eace078a2ca3bacf.gif” by Sophia Lapres - ESSAY This is an essay I wrote about my best friend’s monumental painting. It sounds too final to say this about an artist whose career is just beginning but I felt, the first time I saw it, that it was the work she was always destined to make. Romantic, funny, intimate, and enormous. I think this is finally the announcement of astonishing talent. I was honoured to ride her coattails in this essay published in Border Crossings.&nbsp; Read it... 2025 <img width="1575" height="2550" width_o="1575" height_o="2550" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/19c732f4eba0e920bca173753ae99c915daa8aa834084e6659a195aa710aa5ab/63212833.jpg" data-mid="167876903" border="0" data-scale="43" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/19c732f4eba0e920bca173753ae99c915daa8aa834084e6659a195aa710aa5ab/63212833.jpg" /> INK by Angela Woodward &nbsp; - BOOK REVIEW This is a review of a really inspiring short novel I read. I think this book is special in the grand canon of books about writers having a hard time writing: it both does and doesn’t make that feel like a personal apocalypse. To the writer it’s a disaster, to everyone else -- who cares? That dialectic and more are held together tenderly and thoughtfully as a singlular object. This novel is a cubist block of of disparate whirling pieces and each made me feel very excited to write. Read it... 2023 <img width="338" height="499" width_o="338" height_o="499" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9fe1b74b113607832dc6619de38c005df9edd7295c5c639522898a12bdce7335/51-DncGx7RL._SX336_BO1-204-203-200_.jpg" data-mid="166701900" border="0" data-scale="45" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/338/i/9fe1b74b113607832dc6619de38c005df9edd7295c5c639522898a12bdce7335/51-DncGx7RL._SX336_BO1-204-203-200_.jpg" /> A DEATH: NOTES OF A SUICIDE by Zalman Shneour - BOOK REVIEW This is an essay about a 100 year old Yiddish novel that was first translated to English a couple of years ago. It’s about a Jew and his love affair with his own revolver as he paces an unnamed town willing all the divine forces he can conjure to give him the strength to kill himself.George Salis of The Collidescope gave me the opportunity to review an “invisible book” and I think that’s what this book felt like. At times, I looked at it and it felt so unstably obscure that it was at risk of collapsing into molecules. I loved it. Read it... 2022 <img width="994" height="1328" width_o="994" height_o="1328" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f14066e525a3922c29c82c77230b3c6dee5aad7b2c60b3295d017185b097ddba/Screen-Shot-2023-01-30-at-4.36.58-PM.png" data-mid="166702272" border="0" data-scale="47" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/994/i/f14066e525a3922c29c82c77230b3c6dee5aad7b2c60b3295d017185b097ddba/Screen-Shot-2023-01-30-at-4.36.58-PM.png" /> VANCOUVER’S LAST FILM - SHORT STORY A short story I wrote for SAD Magazine’s “Death” issue. I thought it would be interesting to write about non-organic death (how people refer to a city as “dying” or an art form as “dying.”) I also thought it would be interesting to write a kind of Borgesian textbook excerpt of a fake movie, one directed by a man driven so insane by the mundanity of a life in Hallmark Christmas movies that he sets out to make a cinematic Hieronymous Bosch painting. I got really excited by that idea and would love to write a novel about it one day.The accompanying art for this short story was made by John Pachkowsky and it’s now framed and in my living room. It makes me feel very proud of myself. Read it... 2020 <img width="724" height="798" width_o="724" height_o="798" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/630888e339f746285d4f08556815c17014b3eb0a4fd02bcff9ef9c4786552a94/Screen-Shot-2023-01-30-at-4.43.21-PM.png" data-mid="166702690" border="0" data-scale="50" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/724/i/630888e339f746285d4f08556815c17014b3eb0a4fd02bcff9ef9c4786552a94/Screen-Shot-2023-01-30-at-4.43.21-PM.png" /> WORMHOLE - SHORT STORY This is written epistolary style. I think there was a time where I felt embarrased about just writing a scene with characters in it. I don’t feel that way any more but there is definitely a liberation to constrained forms that I still appreciate. This is a classic heartbreaking/longing piece. There’s a lot of sentences in it that I still think are quite pretty. Read it...&nbsp; 2019 Unpublished Writing Back to top <img width="676" height="1010" width_o="676" height_o="1010" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d74141f6fd27ea29c93179bb47d8d4bd8cee53cc6fc51c2246729c93c4f85ed9/Screen-Shot-2023-07-26-at-8.26.13-PM.png" data-mid="186206262" border="0" data-scale="45" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/676/i/d74141f6fd27ea29c93179bb47d8d4bd8cee53cc6fc51c2246729c93c4f85ed9/Screen-Shot-2023-07-26-at-8.26.13-PM.png" /> Research Essays In researching my first feature film one thing’s become clear: research is a particularly lonely activity.&nbsp; I have all these books by mostly dead people to keep me company and they fill me with so many ideas and sensations and I’ve become a bit bored with marginalia. So I started this research journal filled with contemplations on my contemplations, dialogues with thinkers that speak to me and art that’s moved me.&nbsp; It’s also an invitation in a way to come look and join in the creative process. No good idea is entirely unique to one person and good ideas are all we can hope for. Read them...