Blonde Cobra

Blonde Cobra
Directed byKen Jacobs
StarringKen Jacobs, Jack Smith
Distributed byThe Film-Makers' Cooperative
Release date
  • 1963 (1963)
Running time
33 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Blonde Cobra is a 1963 short film directed by experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs. Footage for the unique[1] and at the time controversial film was shot by Bob Flieshner.[2] Marc Siegel states that the 33-minute film is "generally considered to be one of the masterpieces of the New York underground film scene", and that it is a "fascinating audio-visual testament to the tragicomic performance of the inimitable Jack Smith", who was a photographer and filmmaker and "queer muse" in New York avant-garde art in the 1960s and 1970s.[3] The film is meant to be accompanied by the presence of a live radio during the screening.[4]

  1. ^ Snow, Michael (1994). The Collected Writings of Michael Snow. Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. p. 285. ISBN 978-0-88920-243-6.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference PiersonJames2011 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Schneider, Steven Jay (1 October 2012). 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die 2012. Octopus Publishing Group. p. 409. ISBN 978-1-84403-733-9.
  4. ^ "Blonde cobra / a philm by Bobby Fleischner [and Ken Jacobs] with Jacky [i.e. Jack] Smith". UC Berkeley Library. UC Berkeley. Retrieved September 3, 2024.