While Jacoby’s first film, Futurist Song, reveals his training as a painter, his love of opera and cinema permeates much of his diverse work, which traverses the intimate and theatrical, humorous and sensual. In his last film, How to Be a Homosexual Part II, completed two years before his death, Jacoby turns his camera on himself, ill from AIDS. Sarah Schulman observes, “Roger was a transitional figure in the history of gay experimental film, bridging from filmmakers who preceded gay liberation, like Anger, Broughton, Warhol, Kuchar, Markopoulos, and others, to younger makers . . . whose entire worldview was forged by gay liberation.”