A tribute to underground filmmaker Jack Smith. The film centers around a graphic transsexual orgy.
Direction
Maddin channels Smith's spirit through deliberate aesthetic decay.
Costume
DIY mythological drag that looks stolen from a flooded community theater.
Director
Guy Maddin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jack Smith's 'Flaming Creatures' (1963) was seized as obscene and became a rallying point for queer cinema; Maddin treats this as sacred text.
The title references a 1959 Johnny Ray song about crying clouds, connecting queer emotion to melodramatic weather systems.
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