This is a slide-show reduction of the longer version of Jack Smith’s No President, as opposed to the 45 minute version in circulation. Of course this is in no way meant as a substitute for either the original or the extant feature. It’s just a bare little fragment of what was once a masterwork. It should be noted that I’ve also included frames from other works not nominally directed by Jack, but that is something he would do himself from time to time. He was, after all, an anarchist and presumably an adherent of the dictum: Property is Theft.

SUNDAY NIGHT POSING SESSIONS

These are some of those photographs from Jack Smith’s Sunday Night Posing Sessions, which went on from around 1958 to 1962, and which led directly to the production of his first filmic masterpiece, Flaming Creatures.   The principle models for these sessions were Mario Montez, Frances Francine, Irving Rosenthal, Joel Markman, Ronald Tavel and Marian Zazeela.