During its 1969 showings at the Elgin Theater, No President was preceded by the color short filmed according to Smith’s direction by photographer Don Snyder (who also shot slides during the same session). Smith appeared as his red-wigged, plastic-jawed, alter ego Rose Courtyard, seated in a wheelchair amid the detritus of the Plaster Foundation. The film was accompanied by two ...
Hedy (1966, 66 minutes), directed by Andy Warhol with scenario by Ronald Tavel and music by John Cale and Lou Reed. A satirical farce, Hedy portrays the story of faded Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr. Once celebrated as one of the most beautiful women alive, Lamarr was famously arrested for shop lifting in a Los Angeles department store. Fact and fiction collide as celebrity goss...
Walden (Diaries, Notes & Sketches) de Jonas Mekas états-Unis, 1969, 16mm, 180’, nb et coul., vostf filmé entre 1964 et1968, monté en 1968-1969
Walden est le premier des journaux de Jonas Mekas, rassemblés sous le titre générique Diaries, Notes & Sketches – le premier monté, même si Lost Lost Lost, achevé en 1976, montre la période précédente, de 1949 à 1963.
Depuis 1950, je n...
与 此同时,整个夏天,Jack Smith都在拍摄Normal Love,他自己在Flaming Creatures后的“商业片”。作为完美主义者的他装了一卡车的恐怖电影俗套道具(狼人,黄女巫,黑蜘蛛,白蝙蝠,美人鱼)开过新泽西到Fire Island,寻找拍摄某个场景的完美外景:仅寻找绿翡翠木乃伊奸杀Cobra Woman(Maria Montez曾主演过同名影片)的沼泽就花了四个星期。有人回忆说每场戏都如一个大派对,大家数小时数小时的化妆,穿戏服,搭布景。
Normal Love照旧在过期胶片上拍摄,因此影片充斥了大堆的粉色,黄色和绿色的色块,让它看上去比Flaming Creatures更华丽。到8月份的时候Gramercy Arts剧院里已经充斥了关于此片的传闻(Village Voice的广告上说“At last! An evening o...
In his essay film, Jerry Tartaglia, longtime archivist and restorer of the film estate of queer New York underground, experimental film, and performance legend Jack Smith, deals less with Smith’s life than with his work, analyzing Smith’s aesthetic idiosyncrasies in 21 thematic chapters.
“Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith is a film essay about the artis...
documents in a very personal manner the portraits of the most active experimental filmmakers in the mid 1960's: Stan Brakhage, Stan Vanderbeek, Jack Smith, Jonas Mekas, Andy Warhol, and Takahiko Iimura. It is a rare historical document of the "Golden Age" of underground film. The film also characterizes the shooting method to each filmmaker as partially uses their style of film...