Sat 9/23 @ 8PM
Cleveland filmmaker (and reporter for local publications including CoolCleveland.com) Bruce Checefsky is hosting an evening of experimental, non-traditional films at the Rubicon “Micro Cinema” at 943 Dopler Street, Akron.
He’ll be screening some of his latest works, along with the 1967 film No Preisdent by Jack Smith. The New York-based Smith, who died of AIDS in 1989, is best known for his widely banned and attacked 1963 film Flaming Creatures. It features drag queens, transsexuals and orgies in its unconventional satirical send-up of Hollywood’s movie industry, and led to an obscenity trial.
The 45-minute No President, his last completed film restored by filmmaker Jerry Tartaglia, was incubated in the clash of the Vietnam/hippie era. It was described by Cinema Scope Magazine as “a masque of race and death,” featuring “white faces, black flesh, an enormous tusk, a bug-eyed succubus, holes in the plaster, acrid marihuana, vinyl exotica, a Christmas tree.”
You can bring your own wine, beer or snacks to the screening, which is free, although a $5-$10 donation would be greatly appreciated.