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Jacobs</span></b><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><br> Senior Lecturer, Film<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>UND&nbsp;English Department<br> Grand Forks, ND 58202 </span></b><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt'><br> (701)777-3321 / voicemail (701)777-3865<br> email: <a href="mailto:christopher.jacobs@und.%20edu">christopher.jacobs@und. <span class=SpellE>edu</span> <br> </a>Office: </span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Merrifield 110 (mailbox)/Sayre 302 (actual office<span class=GramE>)</span><br> <b>Office Hours: </b>Wednesdays and Thursdays at 1:00 pm in Merrifield room 122, or by appointment<br style='mso-special-character:line-break'> <![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]><br style='mso-special-character:line-break'> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'><a href="Intropage.htm">English 225</a></span></b><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'> <br> -- Intro to Film -- Three Sections (Tuesdays and Wed or <span class=SpellE>Thur</span>): <br> </span></b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt'>Tuesdays 2:00-4:00 or so (movie screenings in M-300 for all sections<span class=GramE>)</span><br> Wednesdays 2:00-2:50 or 3:00-3:50 or Thursdays 2:00-2:50 (lecture-discussions in M-116)<br style='mso-special-character:line-break'> <![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]><br style='mso-special-character:line-break'> <![endif]></span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size: 18.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><span style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Christopher P. Jacobs - short biography</span></b></p> <p><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600" o:spt="75" o:preferrelative="t" path="m@4@5l@4@11@9@11@9@5xe" filled="f" stroked="f"> <v:stroke joinstyle="miter"/> <v:formulas> <v:f eqn="if lineDrawn pixelLineWidth 0"/> <v:f eqn="sum @0 1 0"/> <v:f eqn="sum 0 0 @1"/> <v:f eqn="prod @2 1 2"/> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelWidth"/> <v:f eqn="prod @3 21600 pixelHeight"/> <v:f eqn="sum @0 0 1"/> <v:f eqn="prod @6 1 2"/> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelWidth"/> <v:f eqn="sum @8 21600 0"/> <v:f eqn="prod @7 21600 pixelHeight"/> <v:f eqn="sum @10 21600 0"/> </v:formulas> <v:path o:extrusionok="f" gradientshapeok="t" o:connecttype="rect"/> <o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="t"/> </v:shapetype><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_2" o:spid="_x0000_s1026" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Description: C:\Users\CPJ\Documents\Film Classes\OnLine Syllabus\ChrisPortrait.GIF" style='position:absolute;margin-left:68.3pt;margin-top:0;width:119.5pt; height:147.6pt;z-index:251657728;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square; mso-width-percent:0;mso-height-percent:0;mso-wrap-distance-left:0; mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:0;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0; mso-position-horizontal:right;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text; mso-position-vertical:top;mso-position-vertical-relative:line; mso-width-percent:0;mso-height-percent:0;mso-width-relative:page; mso-height-relative:page' o:allowoverlap="f"> <v:imagedata src="ChrisPortrait.GIF"/> <o:lock v:ext="edit" aspectratio="f"/> <w:wrap type="square" anchory="line"/> </v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><img width=159 height=197 src=ChrisPortrait.GIF align=right alt="Description: C:\Users\CPJ\Documents\Film Classes\OnLine Syllabus\ChrisPortrait.GIF" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_2"><![endif]><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Christopher Jacobs has been a <a href="http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Highrise/7836">film buff</a> and collector since his junior high school days, with a particular interest in the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/alt.movies.silent">silent cinema</a>. The lure of <a href="http://www.cinemaweb.com/silentfilm/bookshelf/">film history</a> eventually took precedence over an equal interest in <a href="http://www.cinematographer.com/">filmmaking</a>, although he has made several short films on 8mm and 16mm, and several feature-length movies on video (both analog and digital). He earned a Master's Degree in Film and Dramatic Production Criticism from the University of North Dakota, where he now teaches <a href="http://fargofilmmaking.wikia.com/wiki/Intro_to_Film">Introduction to Film</a> as a senior lecturer, handling one or more of the Intro to Film sections since 1995. In addition, he has taught a Creative Writing class focusing on screenwriting, a Special Topics class on creative movie production using digital video equipment, and has done occasional guest lectures on film for the History Department and the School of Communications. Since June 2006 he also has conducted a <a href="SummerMovieCamp.htm">summer moviemaking workshop</a> for teens, and a couple years later added one for adults, along with fellow English Dept. lecturer <a href="http://www.dakotalit.com/">Kathy King</a>. A <a href="http://www.boxoffice.com/">movie theatre manager</a> for over nine years until his company was bought out by a larger chain, Jacobs continued to work as a projectionist/ staff leader at the former <span class=SpellE>Midco</span> 10 Theatre, now called the <a href="www.carmike.com">Carmike 10</a>, until the theatre switched from 35mm film to digital projection in 2007. Besides teaching film and making movies, Jacobs is the <a href="Reviews.htm">movies editor</a> for <i><a href="http://www.hpr1.com/film">The High Plains Reader</a></i>, a regional weekly tabloid arts &amp; entertainment newspaper, writing regular film and local theatre reviews since 1994 and mainly Blu-ray reviews since 2009. In July 2010 he signed a contract to co-author an introductory college-level film textbook for <span class=SpellE>Bridgepoint</span> Education, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Film: From Watching to <span class=GramE>Seeing</span></i>, with Arizona film critic Bill <span class=SpellE>Goodykoontz</span>, which was published in 2011. In 2006 he adapted and expanded several of his High Plains Reader articles into a short handbook on do-it-yourself video production, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'>Instant Film School: No-Budget Moviemaking with Digital Video, </i>which is used for his moviemaking workshops. During the late 1990s he co-authored a reference book project with Donald W. McCaffrey for Greenwood Publishing, <i><a href="http://info.greenwood.com/books/0313303/0313303452.html">Guide to the Silent Years of American Cinema</a></i>. It is a one-volume critical encyclopedia of notable silent films, directors, actors, and screenwriters, published in September of 1999. In October 2001, he presented a paper at the Northern Great Plains History Conference on the history of movie theatres in Grand Forks. In the late 1990s he was on the building committee for the renovation of the historic <a href="EmpireHistory.htm">Empire Theatre</a> into a home for the <a href="http://www.novac.org/">North Valley Arts Council</a>. In fall of 2002 he helped organize the first <span class=SpellE>Forx</span> Film Fest at the Empire Arts Center, held annually in November through 2009. Most of Jacobs' once-substantial book and memorabilia collection was lost in the Grand Forks flood of 1997, as well as a substantial portion of his film and tape collection, but his interest in <a href="http://www.nitrateville.com/">film</a> has survived. </span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Jacobs' other interests include <a href="Website/DigitalMovies.htm">filmmaking and video production</a>; using computers for desktop publishing and graphic design; music listening, performance, recording, and occasional composition (almost all kinds -- classical, ragtime, jazz, blues, hard rock, heavy metal, etc.); live theatre (viewing, performing, and directing); and <a href="Eutropius.html">ancient history</a> (particularly ancient <a href="http://www.egyptology.com/reeder/links.html">Egypt</a>, <a href="http://medusa.perseus.tufts.edu/">Greece</a>, and <a href="http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/2116/">Rome</a>). He worked briefly on the <span class=SpellE>Coen</span> brothers' Oscar-winning film, <i>Fargo</i>, during their stay in Grand Forks in March of 1995. In the spring of 1998 Jacobs served as Associate Producer on a low-budget direct-to-video 16mm feature film entitled <i><a href="http://community-2.webtv.net/rlmcs/DeadAndTooStupidTo/">Dead and Too Stupid to Know It</a></i>, which was a sequel to the even lower-budget <i><a href="http://community.webtv.net/rlmcs/4Cheerleadersofthe">4 Cheerleaders of the Apocalypse</a>. </i>Filmed in Grand Forks that May, the comedy-horror-sex spoof appeared on regional video shelves in March of 1999. In September of 1998 Jacobs was Script Supervisor on another independent film production, <i><a href="http://www.dead-dogs.com">Dead Dogs</a>. </i>Also shot in Grand Forks, this 35mm black &amp; white feature is a moody, character-driven film noir heist picture well-suited for the film festival and <span class=SpellE>arthouse</span> circuit. Although not acquired by a distributor, it won a number of festival awards, including  Best American Independent Feature at the 1999 Seattle International Film Festival and  Best Picture at the 1999 <span class=SpellE>Chicago.Alt.Film</span> Festival, and was selected as the climactic closing night film at the 2000 Minneapolis International Film Festival. <i>Dead Dogs</i> also earned glowing reviews in <i>Variety</i> and the <i>Los Angeles Times, </i>as well as at European festivals. These film production experiences, coinciding with rapidly dropping costs of digital camcorders and computer editing equipment, inspired Jacobs to revive his moviemaking activities using digital video.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>During the summer of 2001 Jacobs produced and directed a movie on digital video from his own script, entitled <i><a href="Website/TheTHREAToftheMUMMY.htm">The Threat of the Mummy</a></i>. He premiered the social-political satire/fantasy in April 2002 at the historic <a href="http://www.empireartscenter.com/">Empire Theatre</a>, and released it on VHS in August. In May 2002 he began shooting on the movie s sequel: <i><a href="Website/VENGEANCEoftheSORCERESS.htm">Vengeance of the Sorceress</a>,</i> which premiered at the Empire the first weekend of November 2002, played at the <span class=SpellE>Forx</span> Film Fest in December, came out on VHS just before Christmas, and played at the Fargo Film Festival in March 2003. Using several of the same actors, he began production on <i><a href="Website/WorkingNights.htm">Working Nights</a></i>, a sort of yuppie soap-opera/murder mystery, shortly before Christmas of 2002. When cast schedules caused its sporadic shooting to be put on indefinite hold after it was half-completed, he started production on <i><a href="Website/DarkHighways-home.htm">Dark Highways</a></i>, a North Dakota neo-noir thriller, which finished principal photography in August 2003, premiered at the <span class=SpellE>Forx</span> Film Fest in November, played at the Empire the following week, and came out on both DVD and VHS in December. <i>Dark Highways</i> was selected as an official entry in the <a href="http://www.nyfilmvideo.com/">New York International Independent Film and Video Festival</a>, with public screenings in Los Angeles, New York, and Las Vegas, while its trailer and music video were shown at two other New York festivals. The feature was screened three times at the 2004 <a href="http://www.smmashfest.com/">SMMASH Film Festival</a> in Minneapolis, where it also received a  Best Screenplay nomination. <i>Dark Highways</i> was represented by ITN Distribution at the Cannes film market in May 2004, and added to ITN s catalog of movies for their pioneering SVOD ( subscription video on demand ) Independent Movie Channel on the <span class=GramE>Akimbo</span> internet cable TV network. Jacobs shot his next <span class=GramE>movie,</span> another supernatural thriller entitled <i><a href="Website/MissMystic-homepage.htm">Miss Mystic</a></i>, in spring of 2004, editing it over the summer. <i>Miss Mystic</i> premiered at the Empire in August, played a five-day run in mid-September 2004, and again at the <span class=SpellE>Forx</span> Film Fest in November, where it won the award for  Best Feature. <i> </i>It later received an Honorable Mention at the 2005 <span class=SpellE>Subrosa</span> B Film Festival in Syracuse, NY, and played at the 2006 &quot;It Came <span class=GramE>From</span> Lake Michigan&quot; horror/sci-fi/fantasy film festival in Racine, WI. All four movies have been carried for rent at Grand Forks Blockbuster Video outlets, Videos Plus in Mayville, ND, and Fargo s Take 2 Video stores. In summer 2005 Jacobs began work on an ambitious backstage movie musical entitled <i><a href="Website/MusicToMyEars-home.htm">Music to My Ears</a></i>, shooting largely at the Empire Theatre through January 2006. After premiering there in February and undergoing some minor re-editing, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'>Music to My Ears</i> was submitted to a variety of film festivals around the country. It was awarded third place in the &quot;family feature&quot; category at The Indie Gathering film festival in Cleveland, OH. During the summer of 2007, Jacobs made <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="Website/DangersFromWithin.htm">Dangers from Within</a></i>, a gothic thriller with some darkly comic elements and his first feature in the HDV format. <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Dangers from Within</i> premiered at the <span class=SpellE>Forx</span> Film Fest in December 2007 and played theatrically at the River Cinema 12 in East Grand Forks, MN from February 22-March 6, 2008. DVD copies of two of Jacobs digital features can still be rented from the remaining Grand Forks Blockbuster Video store, and all six can be purchased directly from the producer. Jacobs has also made a number of short digital movies over the past several years.</span></p> <p><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Before embarking on approximately annual feature-length movie productions, Jacobs worked on and off for several years at writing a series of full-length <a href="NovelChapter5.htm">novels </a>in the historical romantic-adventure genre. He completed the first book, <i>The Treasure of Isis</i>, in November of 1998. Throughout 1999 he revised and polished it while working on the sequel, which he finished on December 31, 1999. In January 2000 he started on the third in the series. The story is set in <a href="PapyrusHieroglyphic.JPG">Egypt</a> during the early <a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/wola.html">4th century A.D.</a> (1087 A.U.C.) amidst the <a href="RomanCoins-sm.JPG">sociopolitical</a> and <a href="http://www.webcom.com/~gnosis/library.html">religious turmoil</a> of the <a href="http://www.sc.edu/ltantsoc/#lan">late Roman Empire</a>, while <a href="http://cosmopolis.com/">Alexandria, Egypt</a> with the comprehensive collection of <a href="PapyrusFragments-main.html">papyrus scrolls</a> in its world-famous library was the center of <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/byz/paleolinks.html">scholarly research</a>. To help get a feel for the period, he has been sporadically struggling to learn the (very rudimentary) basics of <a href="http://www.rostau.demon.co.uk/AEgyptian-L/">Egyptian hieroglyphs</a>, <a href="http://odyssey.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/texts/coptic/introduction.html">Coptic</a>, <a href="http://www.bham.ac.uk/theology/goodacre/greek.htm">ancient Greek</a>, and <a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/AG/allgre.contents.html">Latin</a>. Other creative writing projects include several short stories and more screenplays, one an updated reworking of a classic <a href="PapyrusMenander.JPG">Greek comedy by Menander</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><a href="JacobsFilmography.htm">FILMOGRAPHY</a> </span>(feature-length and short movies made on film and video)</b><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><a href="index.htm">BACK</a> to Jacobs Homepage</span></b></p> <p><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Last updated January 10, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>(Please report any dead or outdated links!)</span></b></p> </div> </body> </html>