Jungle Island

1967
Country: USA
Duration: 20 mins
Colour,
Sound: Separate CD
Ratio: 4:3
Available Format/s: 16mm
Original Format: 16mm film

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Jack Smith’s 1967 program Horror and Fantasy at Midnight featured a number of individual titles – “film clips from the subterranean chambers of Dr. Madman!” – including Reefers of Technicolor Island/Jungle Island, Scrubwoman of Atlantis (both in “Livid Color!!”), Ratdroppings of Uranus, Marshgas of Flatulandia , The Flake of Soot, and Overstimulated . The latter aside, Reefers/Jungle Island is the only one of these found as a stand-alone film – it also received the most press. Jonas Mekas’s Village Voice review cited a movie that “starred a most beautiful marijuana plant, a gorgeous blooming white queen with her crown reaching towards the sky.” At some point, Smith combined this with footage of another queen – Mario Montez – seemingly shot on the beach in Florida. (J. Hoberman )

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