- Flaming Creatures
Infobox Film
name=Flaming Creatures
caption=Theatrical release poster
director=Jack Smith
starring= Frances Francine
Sheila Bick
Joel Markman
Dolores FloresMario Montez
Arnold Rockwood
Judith Malina
Marian Zazeela
producer= Jack Smith
released=1963
runtime=43 min
language=English
budget= $300
imdb_id=0054880 |"Flaming Creatures" (1963) is an American
experimental film byfilmmaker Jack Smith. Due to its surreal, graphic depiction of sexuality, the film was seized by the police at its premiere, and was officially determined to be obscene by an NY Criminal Court. The 43-minute featurette attracted media and public attention, and has been described as a "controversial featurette". This also made Jack Smith famous as a film director acrossNorth America . Smith himself described the film as "a comedy set in a haunted music studio."Description
The film features an array of
transvestite s,hermaphrodite s, drag shows, a sexually ambiguous vampire, a drug orgy and a well-built cunnilingual rapist. Sexual ambiguity is a prominent visual theme, which is particularly shown by overlapping images of flaccid penis and breasts.External links
*imdb title|id=0054880|title=Flaming Creatures
*imdb name|id=0808542|name=Jack Smith
* [http://www.ubu.com/film/smith_jack.html Video of Flaming Creatures at Ubuweb]
* [http://www.cas.buffalo.edu/classes/dms/cgkoebel/bc/jsmith.html Flaming Creatures]
* [http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/02/21/flaming.html Flaming Creatures by Constantine Verevis]
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