STARSPANGLED TO DEATH (2/4)

Title

STARSPANGLED TO DEATH (2/4)

Description

US
99'
Documentary, History


STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH is an epic film shot for hundreds of dollars! combining found-films with my own more-or-less staged filming, it pictures a stolen and dangerously sold-out America, allowing examples of popular culture to self-indict. Racial and religious insanity, monopolization of wealth and the purposeful dumbing down of citizens and addiction to war oppose a Beat playfulness.

A handful of artists costumed and performing unconvincingly appeal to audience imagination and understanding to complete the picture. Jack Smith's pre-FLAMING CREATURES performance as The Spirit Not Of Life But Of Living (the movie has raggedly cosmic pretensions), celebrating Suffering (rattled impoverished artist Jerry Sims) at the crux of sentient existence, is a visitation of the divine.

K.J. [ text taken from starspangledtodeath.com ]

Creator

JACOBS KEN

Publisher

N/A

Date

2004

Format

VHS

Language

ENGLISH

Identifier

CHOD0089

Collection

Citation

JACOBS KEN, “STARSPANGLED TO DEATH (2/4),” WPB, accessed March 16, 2025, https://tpb.worm.org/items/show/12573.

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