Flaming Creatures
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| Flaming Creatures | |
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| Directed by | Jack Smith |
| Produced by | Jack Smith |
| Starring | Frances Francine Sheila Bick Joel Markman Dolores Flores Mario Montez Arnold Rockwood Judith Malina Marian Zazeela |
| Release date(s) | 1963 |
| Running time | 43 min |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $300 |
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Flaming Creatures is the name of a small experimental film produced in the USA in early 1960s. Due to its surreal, graphic depiction of sexuality, the film was seized by the police at its premiere, and was officially determined to be obscene by a NY Criminal Court. The 43-minute featurette attracted media and public attention, and has been described as a "controversial featurette". This also made Jack Smith famous as a film director across North America. Smith himself described the film as "a comedy set in a haunted music studio."
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The film features an array of vampire-looking transvestites, hermaphrodites, drag shows, a sexually ambiguous vampire, a drug orgy and a well-built cunnilingual rapist. Sexual ambiguity is a prominent visual theme, which is particularly shown by overlapping images of flaccid penis and breasts.
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