Kelly Spivey

Kelly Spivey

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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis 2007 (6.6)

In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's performances and films punctuate interviews with artists, critics, friends and foes to create an engaging portrait of the artist. Widely known for his banned queer erotica film Flaming Creatures, Smith was an innovator and firebrand who influenced artists such as Andy Warhol and John Waters.
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The Flooded Playground 2005

The Flooded Playground is a digitally composed animated fairy tale about a young child who resides in a house which has a darkly disturbing force that oppresses him in body, mind and spirit. The wallpaper torments him, a malevolent wind deters him from eating, and thorned vines erupt in his bedroom. A sudden cataclysm throws him into a craggy wonderland where he wanders into deep forests and through his inner inferno in a quest to mend his damaged spirit. Thematically, this film is concerned with the amorphous fears, covert brutality, yearnings, and magical thinking of childhood, the resiliency of the human spirit, and the meaning of home. Lush visual images depict the emotional complexities of childhood - the combination of helplessness and invincibility, sweetness and brutality, and the edge where lines between the real and the imaginary are blurred.
Kelly Spivey

Kelly Spivey

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Mississippi Creates: Tyler Keith 2022

Tyler Keith plays punk-inspired rock and roll influenced by his love for Mississippi and Memphis musicians, authors, and filmmakers. Tyler's story is told through oral history and two of his songs performed in their entirety at the Lyric theatre in Oxford, Mississippi.