Blonde Cobra
| Blonde Cobra | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Ken Jacobs |
| Starring | Ken Jacobs, Jack Smith |
| Distributed by | The Film-Makers' Cooperative |
Release date |
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Running time | 33 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Blonde Cobra is a 1963 short film directed by experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs. Footage for the unique[1] and at the time controversial film was shot by Bob Flieshner.[2] Marc Siegel states that the 33-minute film is "generally considered to be one of the masterpieces of the New York underground film scene", and that it is a "fascinating audio-visual testament to the tragicomic performance of the inimitable Jack Smith", who was a photographer and filmmaker and "queer muse" in New York avant-garde art in the 1960s and 1970s.[3]
Plot
The film captures Smith wearing dresses and makeup, playing with dolls, and smoking marijuana. Paul Arthur writes that the film contains "dizzying quasi-autobiographical rants" which spin on sadism, and that like Jacobs' Little Stabs at Happiness, it contains "languid improvisations studded with the bare bones of narrative incident or, more accurately, its collapse".
See also
- List of American films of 1963
- Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis, a 2006 documentary film about the filmmaker himself
References
- ISBN 978-0-88920-243-6.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-19-538497-0.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-84403-733-9.
- ISBN 0-8223-2173-4.
- ISBN 978-0-8166-3351-7.
External links
- Blonde Cobra at the Film-Makers' Cooperative
- Blonde Cobra at IMDb
- Blonde Cobra at Rotten Tomatoes
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