Film Love, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Film Studies at Emory and Studies in Sexualities at Emory present:
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JACK SMITH'S NORMAL
LOVE
Friday, November 30, 2012
8:00 pm at Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
$8 general | $5 student/senior | Free with
ACAC membership
An artist who excelled in photography, filmmaking, performance art (long before
that term was in use), and general theatrical experience, Jack Smith was the
creator of his own strange, sumptuous universe. Mixing the high camp exotica of
such 1940s Hollywood films as Arabian Nights and Cobra Woman with
1960s pop art and polymorphous gender play, Smith was a visionary whose works
look both utterly contemporary and completely out of time.
On November 30, Film Love presents the newly restored version of Normal Love,
a key work in Smith’s aesthetic. Normal Love is part satire on
heterosexuality, part horror film, part comedy – and the rest of the equation
must be filled in by the film’s viewers. Mermaids, Pink Fairies, Green Mummies,
Werewolves, and Cobra Women cavort in luscious color, in a costume epic as
opulent as any Hollywood fantasy.
Normal Love was never completed by Smith – he continually re-edited it,
sometimes during the course of a single screening – and this restored version
allows us to see the sometimes astonishing material with which Smith created his
theatricalized film projections. Challenging and beautiful, uncompromising and
unclassifiable, Normal Love is an act of queer cinematography, and an
essential part of the story of underground film.
Normal Love (Jack Smith, 1963-65) 120 min
The Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
535 Means Street NW
Atlanta, GA, 30318
404.688.1970
http://www.thecontemporary.org/
JACK SMITH'S NORMAL LOVE is co-sponsored by the
Atlanta
Contemporary Art Center,
Film Studies at
Emory and Studies in
Sexualities at Emory.
JACK SMITH'S NORMAL LOVE is a Film Love event, programmed and hosted by
Andy Ditzler for Frequent Small Meals. Film Love promotes awareness of the rich
history of experimental and avant-garde film. Through public screenings and
events, Film Love preserves the communal viewing experience, provides space for
the discussion of film as art, and explores alternative forms of moving image
projection and viewing. Film Love was voted Best Film Series in Atlanta by the
critics of Creative Loafing in 2006, and was featured in Atlanta Magazine's Best
of Atlanta 2009.