Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming Normal Love (remake) (2023)

Bruce Checefsky's completion of a new movie, Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming Normal Love (remake), marks a departure from Eastern European to lost or destroyed American Avant-grade films. Jack Smith was filming Normal Love at a rented farmhouse in Old Lyme, Connecticut summer of 1963. Warhol was there in August during the Cake Sequence, where the cast danced on top of a giant wooden birthday cake designed by Cales Oldenburg. Warhol appeared in the Cake Sequence, along with poets Diane di Parma and Mario Montez. On the same day, Warhol shot his first film, a short color reel titled Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming Normal Love. In February 1964, Warhol screened his film at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque, New Bowery theater with Flaming Creatures. Police raided the theater and confiscated both films. Jonas Mekas, who organized the screening, and projectionists Ken Jacobs, Florence Karpf, and Jerry Sims got arrested on charges of showing an obscene film. Mekas and Jacobs were convicted and received suspended sentences. Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming Normal Love was never returned and is considered lost or destroyed.