Country: USA
Year: 2008
Duration: 94'
After visiting his parents, Mikey is headed to the airport to return to his “Momma’s Man began as a way of documenting the place where
wife and newborn baby. Except he doesn’t board the plane. Instead he
returns to his parents’ loft in Manhattan, back to his childhood room.
Unsure of his own motivations, he makes up excuses about why he’s
staying. His mother is more than happy to enable his procrastination,
while his father is puzzled. But Mikey comes to a point where he must
choose between life as it is and life as it was.
I grew up – in a rented loft in downtown Manhattan where my folks
have been living for over 40 years. Tribeca, a neighborhood once
overrun by artists, is now rapidly changing into some sort of St Moritz.
A young banker has recently bought the building, and though my
parents have rent control, I know someday I will have to walk past
the building and wonder who lives there. This truly pains me.”
Biography
film director
Azazel Jacobs
Azazel Jacobs (New York, NY, USA, 1972), son of avant-garde filmmaker Ken
Jacobs, graduated from the film department of Purchase College of New York in 1995. His thesis film, Kirk and Kerry, won Best Short film at the Slamdance Film Festival in 1997 and became part of the permanent collection at the Donnell New York Public Library. In 1999, he moved to Los Angeles to study directing at the American Film Institute (AFI). While getting his master’s degree, he made his first feature, Nobody Needs to Know, which had its world premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in 2003. Two years later, Jacobs premiered his second feature, The GoodTimesKid, at the AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles and in 2008 his third feature, Momma’s Man, partecipated at the 26th Torino Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia/filmography
Kirk and Kerry (cm, 1997), Danger 44 (cm, 1999), Dear Mexico (cm, 2000), Nobody Needs to Know (2003), On Wee! (cm, 2003), The GoodTimesKid (2005), Momma’s Man (2008), Terri (2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay Azazel Jacobs
fotografia/cinematography Tobias Datum
montaggio/film editing Darrin Navarro
musica/music Mandy Hoffman
suono/sound Cory Melious
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Matt Boren (Mikey), Flo Jacobs (la mamma/Mom), Ken Jacobs (il papà/Dad), Dana Evron (Laura), Richard Edson (Tom), Eleanor Hutchins (Bridget), Piero Arcilesi (Dante), Nan Arcilesi
produttori/producers Hunter Gray, Alex Orlovsky
produzione/production Artists Public Domain
distribuzione, vendita all’estero/distribution, world sales Visit Films
fotografia/cinematography Tobias Datum
montaggio/film editing Darrin Navarro
musica/music Mandy Hoffman
suono/sound Cory Melious
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Matt Boren (Mikey), Flo Jacobs (la mamma/Mom), Ken Jacobs (il papà/Dad), Dana Evron (Laura), Richard Edson (Tom), Eleanor Hutchins (Bridget), Piero Arcilesi (Dante), Nan Arcilesi
produttori/producers Hunter Gray, Alex Orlovsky
produzione/production Artists Public Domain
distribuzione, vendita all’estero/distribution, world sales Visit Films
