Tony Conrad, creator of the original music for Jack Smith’s notorious underground film Flaming Creatures (1962), has been revisiting this experience throughout his career. After having put out two CDs, he is now planning a vinyl release of an improvised rant by the flamboyant Smith, as recorded on January 20th, 1963.
The visuals for this unique audio-preview stem from Conrad’s four-and-a-half hour musical performance ‘Impacted Crustacean Jack Smithian Delirium’, which was his contribution to the ‘LIVE FILM! JACK SMITH! Five Flaming Days in a Rented World’ event in Berlin in 2009.
Conrad has a talent for turning film refuse into art. In recent years, he has also presented five 16mm loops created between 1963 and 2009, showcasing out-takes from the original Flaming Creatures, edited at the time by Smith in Conrad’s apartment. Sun 27, 22:00-23:30, LantarenVenster 4
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2009
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2013
- Length
- 147"
- Medium/Format
- File
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