Jack Smith:
Normal Love

Normal Love (1963) is the second feature film of legendary New York underground filmmaker Jack Smith. We are showing this film in the posthumous version edited by Jerry Tartaglia. It shows a panorama of snake women, mummies, mermaids and exotic dances to the soundtrack of exotica jazz and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade. Together with his friends and underground stars, Smith arranges picnic scenes, orgies and Busby Berkeley numbers, and transforms exoticisms of 1950’s Hollywood into a queer feast of images. 

TICKETS The purchase of a ticket for Schönheitsabend or Fremde Tänze allows the reduced admission of 3€ to the archive works and films at the box office.

WITH Mario Montez, Beverly Grant, Tiny Tim, Frances Francine and others.

photo © Jack Smith: Normal Love, 1963-65, Film Still // Copyright Jack Smith Archive, Courtesy Gladstone Gallery New York and Brussels