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Title
The Flaming Creatures
Director
Jack SmithDate
1963Origin
United StatesDescription
The Flaming Creatures is an Avant Grade Art film by artist Jack Smith. The film was made during the the era of the New York Underground Film movement that brought us art film artist like Andy Warhol and the Kuchar Brothers both which inspired John Waters.
The weird plotless film features male and female nudity and the police often raided showing in the sixties. The film evokes a non-narrative orgy in its parade of flaccid penises, bouncing breasts, and at various intervals depictions of both violent assault and celebratory pleasure.
Smith shot the movie on old army surplus film that was about 15 years old.
Trigger warning: Sexual Assault
