HAMLET IN THE RENTED WORLD (A FRAGMENT) + COBRA WOMAN
Jerry Tartaglia HAMLET IN THE RENTED WORLD (A FRAGMENT) 1970-73, 27 min, 16mm-to-DCP A portrait of Jack Smith fashioned from the debris of an unfinished project: "You might say that [this 27-minute assemblage put together by Jerry Tartaglia on behalf of the Gladstone Gallery from materials discovered in the Jack Smith Archives dating from the early 1970s] is BLONDE COBRA's sort of sequel… In trying to bring into existence the derangement of a classic text – a project that Smith himself had abandoned – HAMLET IN THE RENTED WORLD is not a preservation but the reconstruction of a deconstruction." –J. Hoberman, "Jack Smith's Hamlet in the Rented World," ACROSS THE MOVI-VERSE Robert Siodmak COBRA WOMAN 1944, 72 min, 35mm. With Maria Montez. "[Four days before Richard Nixon was reelected president, I saw the complete TRIUMPH OF THE WILL sans subtitles at the old Anthology Film Archives on Wooster Street and was nauseated.] The next night, either by coincidence or design, I caught a salutary, anti-fascist double bill at the New Yorker theater: DUCK SOUP, which I knew by heart, and COBRA WOMAN, which I knew only by reputation as Jack Smith's favorite film, later noting that 'The Cobra Dance' should be spliced into or shown with TRIUMPH OF THE WILL." –J. Hoberman, "Triumph of the Will and the Artification of Fascism," ACROSS THE MOVI-VERSE