"Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison." - Georges Bataille In 1959 Jack Smith and a group of friends and actors trespassed onto a heap of rubble, once a neighborhood—the ghetto of San Juan Hill (famously the setting for West Side Story)—which had been razed to make way for the construction of what would become Lincoln Center.  They made a film there called Scotch Tape (1959-63): a reckless, raucous, three-minute fr...[more]