This second program features his second feature length film Normal Love, which seems to derive from his adoration of B-movie star Maria Montez.Īfter completing Flaming Creatures, Smith shot the more ambitious Normal Love in dazzling color, with elaborate sets (including a Busby Berkeley-esque multitiered cake made by Claes Oldenburg) and costumes inspired by horror films and Maria Montez epics. ![]() Pioneering underground filmmaker and performance artist Jack Smith came into the world in Columbus in 1932, and we’re devoting three programs of Cinema 614 to his influential, and truly inimitable, work. ![]() ![]() “The only true underground filmmaker.”-John Waters
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