New Films and Performances – Over 50 International Guests – Superstar Mario Montez Live!
From October 28- November 1 2009 Arsenal-Institute for Film and Video Art and LIVE FILM! JACK SMITH! Five Flaming Days in a Rented World,” a monumental event that brings together over fifty international artists and scholars to pay homage to the pioneering American underground artist and queer icon Jack Smith twenty years after his death from AIDS.
Through performances, film and video screenings, installations, concerts, lectures and discussions, LIVE FILM! JACK SMITH! not only offers a variety of perspectives on the gender and genre bending work of Smith, Andy Warhol and fellow ’60s avant-gardists, but also situates this work in dialogue with that of a diverse group of international contemporary artists.
Sounds like Germany is the place to be in October. My short film, “A Performance by Jack Smith” will be shown in this wonderful program.
Posted October 28, 2009