Flaming creatures jack smith10/31/2023 ![]() In this respect it shares a kinship with found-footage films that use mainstream material - a relatively recent tradition stretching all the way from Craig Baldwin to Jean-Luc Godard’s ‘Histoire(s) du cinéma’ to…Martin Arnold’s ‘Alone. ![]() Apart from Joseph Cornell’s ‘Rose Hobart’ (1939), ‘Flaming Creatures’ may be the first major avant-garde movie to have embraced Hollywood even as it more implicitly defied its narrative procedures. As I wrote in the Chicago Reader 21 years ago, “Implicitly or explicitly, all avant-garde cinema has a dialectical relationship to mainstream cinema, which usually means Hollywood.
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