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Large gathering of original 16mm film fragments from Normal Love / Yellow Sequence, sliced from a workprint of said film by Smith, and bearing marks of Smith s subsequent manipulation for - and during - screenings and performances. Amidst the success, scandal, and censorship of Flaming Creatures, Jack Smith began his second feature work, Normal Love. Consisting of an ensemble cast of Tony Conrad, Tiny Tim, Mario Montez, Diane di Prima, Beverly Grant, an errant Andy Warhol, and others from the early-1960s New York avant-garde milieu, the film was shot in 1963 and first shown in 1964. Smith never "finished" Normal Love; it was a continually shifting indeterminate agglomeration of performance, film screening, and multimedia slideshow. At screenings and performances of the work, Smith would show rushes of the film, cut and splice on the fly, respool the film back through the projector, while playing music from his collection. Smith also punctuated screenings with sections of live performance and slideshows, likely why he mounted these fragments to slides. The slides gathered here are primarily from Yellow Sequence, a roll of film shot separately from Normal Love but that bears clear continuities. In the film, Francis Francine dances with the mongol child (also featured in Normal Love) before dying in a sundrenched field of golden flowers while Tiny Tim strums a ukelele atop an abandoned automobile. It is often referred to as an "addendum" to Normal Love and is usually screened in accompaniment. The fragments are lush and exquisite redolent of Smith s early color photographic tableaus. Normal Love / Yellow Sequence, and in particular their endless (re)cutting into fragments, sequences, and slides are emblems of Smith s commitment to continual reinvention and iteration, such that a work was never completed and subject to the coagulating forces of catalogization and musealization. An original artifact of Jack Smith s unique filmic and performance process. As J. Hoberman writes, the slides "are the real flotsam of Atlantis.". 7 slide boxes containing 173 slides with mounted 16mm film fragments. Kodak Eastman color film. Fragments sliced, spliced, and taped by Jack Smith, with residue present on several film fragments. Exposure of film fragments varies with some appearing underexposed.
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