I actually heard of this artist/film director the first time yesterday when a friend of mine told me about plans for a Smith-conference in Berlin in automn. I hope I’m not the only person here who’s not familiar with this guy who some people even call the most influencial US artist of the last fifty years. This is what I know now: Smith is a pioneer of the (queer) underground cinema and of performance art, combining early Hollywood/ B-Movie-kitsch and Orientalism with his own campy and abstract style. But I don’t wanna bore you with boring second-hand information, so I’ll just post you a link to UbuWeb here were you’ll find an article about Mr. Smith and three of his movies – his most famous one is “Flaming Creatures” from 1963. I also posted a youtube-trailer for a documentation about him. Thanks, Tim.
I actually heard of this artist/film director the first time yesterday when a friend of mine told me about plans for a Smith-conference in Berlin in automn. I hope I’m not the only person here who’s not familiar with this guy who some people even call the most influencial US artist of the last fifty years. This is what I know now: Smith is a pioneer of the (queer) underground cinema and of performance art, combining early Hollywood/ B-Movie-kitsch and Orientalism with his own campy and abstract style. But I don’t wanna bore you with boring second-hand information, so I’ll just post you a link to UbuWeb here were you’ll find an article about Mr. Smith and three of his movies – his most famous one is “Flaming Creatures” from 1963. I also posted a youtube-trailer for a documentation about him. Thanks, Tim.
