Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously enough with several men and women, mostly of ...

Apart from Joseph Cornell’s ‘Rose Hobart’ (1939), ‘Flaming Creatures’ may be the first major avant-garde movie to have embraced Hollywood even as it more implicitly defied its narrative ...

Hoberman as “a cross between Joseph von Sternberg at his most studiedly artistic and a delirious home movie of a transvestite ... to present REDCAT’s Flaming Creatures screening and discuss ...

A small colour section is outtake material supplied by Jack (Flaming Creatures) Smith from his movie The White Vampires. A goading, infuriating collage of outtakes and cutups, a cocked snoot at ...