Two Wrenching Departures

Two Wrenching Departures — Plot

Made in response to the death of his friends Bob Fleischner and Jack Smith, who died within one week of each other in 1989, this feature includes footage from Jacobs’s Star Spangled to Death showing Smith perambulating through downtown Manhattan, as well as views of Fleischner from Jacobs’s 1961 short The Whirled.

• Release date
• January 1, 2006
• Runtime
• 90 min
• Director
• Ken Jacobs

Two Wrenching Departures — Cast

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Bob Fleischner Jack Smith