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Respectable Creatures
UNITED STATES · 1966

Respectable Creatures

Jack Smith
experimental cinema found footage carnival culture collage filmmaking avant-garde aesthetics
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Synopsis

Respectable Creatures is an unusual blending of Jack Smith's first known film, Buzzards over Baghdad, with stray images from Normal Love, concluding with material which he shot at Carnaval in Rio.

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