Cinema Pacific’s Schnitzer Cinema presents:Queer Productions: American Experimental Media
Jerry Tartaglia presents newly restored films from the Jack Smith Archive, courtesy of Gladstone Gallery, New York City and Brussels. Jack Smith was one of the most accomplished and influential underground artists in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s and a key figure in the cultural history of film, performance, photography, and art in America. His best-known film, Flaming Creatures (1963), an excerpt of which will be screened, became the subject of a protracted legal battle over its alleged pornographic content. Also included in the program are Midnight At The Plaster Foundation, the only known complete recording of a Jack Smith performance Hamlet in the Rented World (A Fragment), and more. Tartaglia also presents a short segment from his own work-in-progress that features previously unheard audio material of Smith talking about his aesthetic.
Schnitzer Cinema series is programmed by Richard Herskowitz, JSMA curator of media arts and director of Cinema Pacific, with the help of Professor Quinn Miller. Free admission and refreshments! The series is cosponsored by Academic Affairs, College of Arts and Sciences, and Department of English.
