Critic and historian Jonathan Rosenbaum had his Facebook account suspended because he posted a still from Jack Smith's film, in which a female nipple is exposed. Looking back today at the legacy of ...

In the March 12, 1964, edition of the Village Voice, contributor Stephanie Gervis Harrington reported that Jonas Mekas demanded to be arrested. The cops obliged. The New American Cinema has run afoul ...

A blond figure emerges from a coffin, the appearance punctuated by jump cuts, eye rolls and fluttering gestures. The curls of a blond wig hang low against the eyebrows. The film is grainy, the music ...

Credited with essentially jump-starting American avant-garde cinema, Jack Smith is not nearly as well known as the filmmakers he allegedly inspired—Fellini, Warhol, and John Waters, among others. Nor ...

It’s 1974 — all over again. If you haven’t noticed, the ’70s are hot. In fact, the decade that gave birth to modern liberation movements, from gay rights to women’s equality; relaxed and au natural ...

The interchangeably heavenly and infernal beings who constitute the title characters of performance artist Jack Smith’s 1962 Flaming Creatures include sheiks, concubines, satyrs and possible vampires, ...

If you’ve even been to a dinner party with great food and even better conversation, you’ll know what it’s like to visit “Flaming June VII: Flaming Creatures” at Gavlak in Los Angeles. The exhibition ...

Looking back today at the legacy of Jonas Mekas (1922-2019) as a pioneer of American independent filmmaking, we like to think that he paved the way for us to enjoy our current freedom as spectators.