No President

No President

black and white, sound on CD, 45 min
Note: Sound on CD. Smith's third feature film was originally titled "The Kidnapping of Wendell Willkie by the Love Bandit," in reaction to the 1968 Presidential Campaign. Willkie was a liberal Republican ...
Rental format: 16mm

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Note: Sound on CD. Smith's third feature film was originally titled "The Kidnapping of Wendell Willkie by the Love Bandit," in reaction to the 1968 Presidential Campaign. Willkie was a liberal Republican who ran against FDR in the 1940's. It mixes B&W footage of Smith's creatures with old campaign footage of Willkie. The climax of the work appears to be the "auctioning" of the presidential candidate at the convention. Brand new distribution print courtesy of Gladstone Gallery.

Programs

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    Counter-Culture / Counter-Cinema: "Flaming Creatures" and "No President"

    Two groundbreaking films by Jack Smith

    The fifth installment of “Counter-Culture / Counter-Cinema” focuses on the work of Jack Smith, whose polymorphously perverse performances and ignominious transgressions of social, political, and institutional decorum made him both a pioneer and a pariah in avant-garde artistic circles.

Films

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    Respectable Creatures
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    Respectable Creatures
    Jack Smith

    color, sound on CD, 24 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Arts / Artists
    • LGBT / Queer
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    Scotch Tape
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    Scotch Tape
    Jack Smith

    16mm, color, sound, 3 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • LGBT / Queer
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    Overstimulated
    Experimental

    Overstimulated
    Jack Smith

    16mm, black and white, silent, 3 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • LGBT / Queer
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    Flaming Creatures
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    Flaming Creatures
    Jack Smith

    16mm, black and white, sound, 43 min
    Rental formats: 16mm, Digital file
    • Body
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    • LGBT / Queer
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    Normal Love
    Experimental

    Normal Love
    Jack Smith

    color, sound on CD, 120 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • LGBT / Queer
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    Yellow Sequence
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    Yellow Sequence
    Jack Smith

    color, sound on CD, 15 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Arts / Artists
    • LGBT / Queer
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    I Was A Male Yvonne De Carlo
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    I Was A Male Yvonne De Carlo
    Jack Smith

    16mm, black and white, sound on CD, 28 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Body
    • LGBT / Queer
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    Jungle Island
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    Jungle Island
    Jack Smith

    color, sound on CD, 15 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Arts / Artists
    • LGBT / Queer
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    Song for Rent
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    Song for Rent
    Jack Smith

    color, sound on CD, 4 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Arts / Artists
    • Comedy
    • LGBT / Queer
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    Hot Air Specialists
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    Hot Air Specialists
    Jack Smith

    color, sound on CD, 7 min
    Rental format: 16mm
    • Arts / Artists
    • LGBT / Queer