Normal Love

Jack Smith’s sumptuous, high-camp, vivid and full-colour homage to B-movies screens from a rare 16mm print.

  • Director

    Jack Smith

  • With

    Mario Montez, Diana Baccus, David Sachs

  • USA 1963. 120min

  • 16mm

The notorious underground filmmaker, queer artist and happenings master Jack Smith followed his police-raided, trans-cinema weapon Flaming Creatures with this verbose, intensely colourful and visionary unfinished marvel. Screening from a 16mm print, delivered direct from the USA, Normal Love sees his New York underground stars emerge as glamorously dressed monsters in scenes and stories at once dreamlike and baroque.

The screening of Normal Love on Wednesday 1 April will be introduced by Professor Dominic Johnson, Queen Mary University of London.

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