Jack Smith
Overleden op: 25-09-1989 (56)
Geboren: 14 november 1932 in Columbus
Bekend van: Flaming Creatures, Silent Night, Bloody Night en Diaries Notes and Sketches
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Smith’s second feature length film appears to derive from his adoration of Maria Montez, the B- movie star best know for her performance in “Cobra Woman.” It features a variety of 30’s horror film monsters, a mermaid, a lecher, and various cuties performed by a cast which included Mario Montez, John Vaccaro, Diane DePrima, Beverly Grant, Tiny Tim, and others.
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This is a bizarre world of Mummies and Werewolves, of Cake ladies and Mermaids, but this idea of normalizing the abnormal is eventually what makes it work, and it does quite well. Smith maps a world whose oddities are far more traditional than anything we know as traditional. This is what made him such an essential contribution to the world of experimental cinema. Warhol, who apparently makes a cameo in Normal Love would never have made the same movies without him, and Warhol’s films (though mainly because of his other media contributions) are the post-modern holy grail of experimental film. You will also see bits of Kenneth Anger (the white bat of Normal Love) and as I have previously mentioned, a lot of [John] Waters.
