Wait for Me at the Bottom of the Pool
Subtitle: The Writings of Jack Smith (High Risk)
Contributors: J. Hoberman (Editor); Edward Leffingwell (Editor)
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: April 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9781852424282
Subjects: Individual film directors, film-makers; Other prose: from c 1900 -; Literary Collections; American Essays; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; English; Performing Arts/Dance; USA; Essays; Literary Criticism & Collections / Essays
First sentence: There was, in the early 1960s, at more or less the time when television had saturated the American market, a sense that movies - and not just individual movies but The Movies - were a form of culture, even the form of American culture.
Description: During thirty years of astonishing activity as a filmmaker, photographer, and performer, Jack Smith produced a body of creative, antic writing that intersects and transcends the genres of hothouse fantasy, criticism, and social comment. Bringing together long unavailable essays, performance scripts, interviews, and other material, Wait for Me at the Bottom of the Pool reveals the ideas and personality of an artist whose distinctive vision has influenced generations of filmmakers and performance artists.