Overstimulated

1959
Country: USA
Duration: 5 mins
B&W,
Sound: Silent
Available Format/s: 16mm
Original Format: 16mm film

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Shot in black and white in Smith’s Lower East Side apartment (the location for the movie that, as edited by Ken Jacobs, would become Blonde Cobra), Overstimulated features Bob Fleischner and Jerry Sims – a sometime Smith model, also prominent in Ken Jacobs’s Star Spangled to Death – wearing long, filmy dresses and jumping up and down in front of a flickering TV set. The camera work is scarcely less frantic; made after Scotch Tape, Smith’s second film likely dates from late 1959, before Smith and Fleischner had their falling out. In the aftermath of Flaming Creatures’ success, Jonas Mekas paid the cost of printing for Overstimulated , which may have been (briefly) distributed by the Film Makers’ Cooperative before Smith withdrew it, Overstimulated was incorporated in the program Horror and Fantasy at Midnight which subsequently evolved into No President. (J. Hoberman )

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