From: Marcos Ortega (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Mar 28 2009 - 05:24:02 PDT
I think you're referring to this quote:
'I started making a comedy about everything that I thought was funny.
And it was funny. The first audiences were laughing from the beginning
all the way through. But then that writing started - and it became a
sex thing.' - Jack Smith, "Uncle Fishook and the Sacred Baby Poo-poo
of Art," Semiotext(e) 3.2 (1978) p.192
It's referred here
http://fmybrain.org/Images/siegelflaming2.pdf
Best,
Marcos
Quoting Fred Camper <email suppressed>:
> A short note Smith wrote on the film, which I believe I read on a wall
> label for a Smith show in Queens some years back, really helped me.
> (And if anyone knows the exact quote and the source, please post.) He
> wrote, as I recall with some bitterness, that, thinking he had made a
> comedy, he was rather surprised to learn that he had made a sex film.
> This gave me a helpful way of thinking about this getle, playful,
> consciously "campy" film that I first heard about, in my teens, as some
> kind of sex scandal.
>
> Fred Camper
> Chicago
>
>
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