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In a six-minute trial, Judge Eve Preminger rejected the Foundation's argument and awarded the archive to Slater.Д«y October 2006, the foundation still refused to surrender Smith's archive to the estate, claiming money owed them for expenses associated with managing the archive-and hoping Smith's work would be bought by an appropriate public institution that could safeguard his legacy and keep the works in the public eye. Hoberman and Arcade fought to dismiss Slater's claim, arguing that she abandoned Jack's apartment and its contents the Plaster Foundation created the archive and took possession of the work only after 14 years of repeated, documented attempts at communication with her.

In January 2004, the New York Surrogate Court ordered Hoberman and Arcade to return Smith's archive to his legal heir, estranged, surviving sister Sue Slater. Within ten years of Smith's death, the Foundation, operating largely without funding but through donations and good will, was able to restore all of Smith's films, create a major retrospective curated by Edward Leffingwell at PS 1, the Contemporary Arts Museum, now part of MoMA, put his films back into international distribution, and publish several books on Jack Smith and his work. Hoberman via their corporation, The Plaster Foundation, Inc. Until recently, Smith's archive was co-managed by Arcade, alongside the film historian J. Arcade attempted to preserve the apartment as Smith had transformed itВ вЂ“ an elaborate stage set for his never-to-be-filmed epic Sinbad in a Rented WorldВ вЂ“ as a museum dedicated to Jack Smith and his work.

In 1989, New York performance artist Penny Arcade tried to salvage Smith's work from his apartment after his long bout with AIDS and subsequent death. In 1987, Smith was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) degree from Whittier College. In 2014 it was released as a limited-ledition vinyl picture disc by Semiotext(e). It was collected in 2013 in Schizo-Culture: The Event, The Book. In 1978, SylvГЁre Lotringer conducted a 13-page interview with Smith (with photos) in Columbia University's philosophy department publication of Semiotext(e). In 1962, he released The Beautiful Book, a collection of pictures of New York artists, that was re-published in facsimile by Granary Books in 2001.ДЄfter his last film, No President (1967), Smith created performance and experimental theatre work until his death on Septemfrom AIDS-related pneumonia. He also worked as a photographer and founded the Hyperbole Photographic Studio in New York.

He played the lead in Andy Warhol's unfinished film Batman Dracula, Ken Jacobs's Blonde Cobra, and appeared in several theater productions by Robert Wilson. The rest of his productions consists mainly of short movies, many never screened in a cinema, but featured in performances and constantly re-edited to fit the stage needs (including Normal Love).ДЄpart from appearing in his own work, Smith worked as an actor.

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Smith's next movie Normal Love was the only work in Smith's oeuvre with an almost conventional length (120 mins.), and featured multiple underground stars, including Mario Montez, Diane di Prima, Tiny Tim, Francis Francine, Beverly Grant, John Vaccaro, and others. Despite not being viewable, the movie gained some notoriety when footage was screened during Congressional hearings and right-wing politician Strom Thurmond mentioned it in anti-porn speeches. Copies of the movie were confiscated at the premiere and it was subsequently banned (technically, it still is to this day). However, authorities considered some scenes to be pornographic. The film is a satire of Hollywood B movies and tribute to actress Maria Montez, who starred in many such productions. The most famous of Smith's productions is Flaming Creatures (1963). Smith was raised in Texas where he made his first film, Buzzards over Baghdad, in 1952.