Doctor’s Dream, The

Jacobs has restructured an existing film, “The Doctor,” into “The Doctor’s Dream”. The new film starts with the shot which was numerically the middle shot in the old film. It then proceeds to the shot that came before that middle shot, then skips over to the other side to the shot that followed the middle shot and keeps skipping back and forth. Finally, at the end, you see the beginning shot of the original film followed by the end shot. “To watch ‘The Doctor’s Dream’ is to witness a narrative unfolding forward and backwards in turns… a deconstructive Frankenstein of a film with new vitality in its borrowed parts.” – Tom Gunning, Millennium Film Journal #10/11)