what does it mean? a good question, because the only things we see in this picture are a dressed up man (with a whole stock of mirrors with him), a dressed op woman and an undressed (wooden?) doll. Jack Smith (the man) shows us very disgusting things he does with the doll. Why did he do that? It remains an unsolved mystery. But actually, because he also talks about messed up boys (and nuns) in his Blonde Cobra, I think Jack Smith had an too early contact with sexuality, one way or the other. To get over the shock, he probably used the medium film. I think this was the case, it explains a lot of things about Little Stabs at Happiness. The mirror sequences show us the sun. But because it is mirrored, we see a false image of the sun. Thus Smith shows us that what we see is wrong. So it could be he meant the doll abused was he as a kid (still an opinion and not a fact). That's what I think about Little Stabs at Happiness, a must-see for the real fans of experimental movies.
Review of Little Stabs at Happiness
