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 ...

Many of Smith’s movies reference the Orientalism of these films; Smith appears in kafiyahs wrapped around his head like Rudolph Valentino, and “Flaming Creatures” is set in the court of Ali ...

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 ...

By J. Hoberman The early 1960s was the golden age of underground movies. Some, like Jack Smith’s “Flaming Creatures,” provoked scandals. Others were too explicit to be written about (see ...

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 ...

There was a time when Smith’s Flaming Creatures was the most feared film in the country. This (literal and figurative) orgy of drag, debauchery and dangly dick sowed scandal wherever it played ...