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Flaming Creatures (1963)
Director: Jack Smith
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Submitted by Colin Burnett on February 15 2005.

Description: The lipstick scene.

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From Susan Sontag's article "Jack Smith's FLAMING CREATURES" (1964):

An Element from Jack Smith's 'Epicene' Tapestry: "Pop art lets in wonderful and new mixtures of attitude, which would before have seemed contradictions. Thus FLAMING CREATURES is a brilliant spoof on sex and at the same time full of the lyricism of erotic impulse. Simply in a visual sense, too, it is full of contradictions. Very studied visual effects (lacy textures, falling flowers, tableaux) are introduced into disorganized, clearly improvised scenes in which bodies, some shapely and convincingly feminine and other scrawny and hairy, tumble, dance, make love."

[ By Colin Burnett • February 15, 2005 ]
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