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Jack Smith was an American filmmaker, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema. He is generally acclaimed as a founding father of American performance art, and has been critically recognized as a master photographer, though his photographic works are rare and remain largely unknown.
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01 January 1985
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
29 April 1963
Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously enough with several men and women, mostly of indeterminate gender, vamping it up in front of the camera and participating in a mock advertisement for an indelible, heart-shaped brand of lipstick.
01 November 1972
A man investigates the grisly crimes that occurred in a former insane asylum, unsettling the locals who all seem to have something to hide.
23 August 1991
Paul Mills is a miserable, lonely man leading a meaningless existence in a nameless city and has visions of the Spirit of Death waiting to collect him while having encounters with various people while seeking solace for his short life knowing it will end soon.
23 November 2013
An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.
07 January 1968
At the court of the Yellow Emperor, the Majoon Traveler & Lady Firefly appear in the Hall of Unconscious Magnetism.
29 December 1963
Ron Rice's Chumlum is one of those films in which the conditions of its construction are integral to the experience of watching it.
21 May 2004
An examination of the history of the U.S. through archival footage and contrasting views of society, incorporating audiovisual material ranging from political campaign films to animated cartoons to children’s phonograph records, featuring Al Jolson, Mickey Mouse, the young Jack Smith, and a half-dozen American presidents.
16 September 1963
Little Stabs at Happiness is a collection of silent shorts Jacobs shot from the period of 1959-1963. Jaunty tunes (and a somber reflection) accompany the footage.
11 April 2007
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's performances and films punctuate interviews with artists, critics, friends and foes to create an engaging portrait of the artist.
22 November 1965
Shot at Warhol's Silver Factory, Camp features a group of Superstars putting on a "summer camp" talent show complete with singing, dancing, jokes, poetry, and Gerard Malanga as master of ceremonies.
28 November 1965
The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film at 24 frames per second.
01 September 1980
A Nietzschian parable on the fate of innocence, THE TRAP DOOR follows the mishaps of Jeremy (John Ahearn) as he is fired by his boss (Jenny Holzer), gets laughed out of court by Judge Gary Indiana, loses his girlfriend to sleazy Richard Prince, is hustled by prospective employer (Bill Rice) and mauled by predatory bird-women.
01 January 1969
Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol.
01 January 1969
During its 1969 showings at the Elgin Theater, No President was preceded by the color short filmed according to Smith’s direction by photographer Don Snyder (who also shot slides during the same session).
31 December 1965
A sort of addendum to Smith's second feature, NORMAL LOVE, but which stands on its own as an anarchic ode to (and explosion of) pop culture, featuring none other than Tiny Tim.
01 January 1966
Respectable Creatures is an unusual blending of Jack Smith's first known film, Buzzards over Baghdad, with stray images from Normal Love, concluding with material which he shot at Carnaval in Rio.
01 January 1963
Shot in Provincetown in the summer of '61 with the goal of funding a larger project, the film was never completed due to a violent argument between actor Jack Smith and director Ken Jacobs shortly after the shooting began.
08 April 1963
A man fondles objects, looks at himself in the mirror, poses in different clothes, smiles and makes faces at the camera while his voice on the soundtrack speaks of his despair, makes impressionistic statements and little songs, quotes Greta Garbo and Maria Montez, tells the story of a lonely little boy and tells the story of a woman named Madame Nescience who dreams of herself as the Mother Superior of a convent of sexual perversion.
01 January 1962
Shot in 1959, Scotch Tape is Jack Smith's first film -- a joyous, three-minute romp, in color, using Peter Duchin's rhumba "Carinhoso" for its soundtrack.
03 March 1966
Egotistical faded star Hedy Lamarr visits a plastic surgeon to be transformed into the "14-year-old girl" she believes herself to be.
01 July 1964
One of four finished Batman Dracula shorts shown publicly by Warhol.
01 January 1964
This compilation of Gerard Malanga's short films consists of a collection of extremely rare footage and film portraits providing candid and interesting glimpses of Bob Dylan, Salvador Dalí, Jane Fonda and The Velvet Underground among other 1960s icons and featuring original music by Angus MacLise, who was the first drummer to perform with The Velvet Underground.
06 August 1997
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
01 January 1964
A documentary on the beginnings of the cultural revolution on the Lower East Side, New York.
22 May 2012
Love Thing captures the emerging multicultural spirit and personal freedom of the late 1970s with an outrageous attitude and experimental style.
19 May 1967
... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, William Burroughs, Andy Warhol, Rudy Gernreich, Jonas Mekas and others.
02 February 1969
Smith's third feature film was originally titled "The Kidnapping of Wendell Willkie by the Love Bandit," in reaction to the 1968 Presidential Campaign.
10 January 1967
The story of Joan of Arc as applied to the present revolution in arts and more. The Gothic is applied to the War in Vietnam.
01 January 1956
Short film with Jack Smith as the mysterious leader of an even-more-mysterious cult, garbed in pseudo-papal regalia and adorned with jewelry and makeup.
25 September 1965
Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry.
14 December 1964
A phantasmagoric exploration into the violence we house within ourselves.
06 August 1963
Two men dressed as children jump up and down, ad nauseum
01 January 1968
Features underground film makers and stars Jack Smith, Charles Ludlum, and Bill Vehr. A satirical film, comprising a collection of vignettes of the entertainment personalities who were famous during the "Roaring Twenties".
01 January 1980
A documentation of a Jack Smith drag performance featuring a large red wig.
31 January 1970
"The question is, it is either going to be a stoned age or a new Stone Age" - Louis Brigante
01 January 1956
Jack Smith descends a fire escape in a makeshift "Arabian" costume and improvises increasingly frenetic choreography.
01 January 2006
Made in response to the death of his friends Bob Fleischner and Jack Smith, who died within one week of each other in 1989, this feature includes footage from Jacobs’s Star Spangled to Death showing Smith perambulating through downtown Manhattan, as well as views of Fleischner from Jacobs’s 1961 short The Whirled.
01 August 1981
“New York plays itself, as Taylor Mead and Winifred Bryan regale in pas de deux among the trashcans and the towers.
01 January 1963
The feature length Normal Love is Jack Smith’s follow up to his now legendary film Flaming Creatures.
01 January 1967
This is one of several films and slide shows that feature Smith as a mock celebrity. It opens with the excerpt from No President originally called "Marsh Gas of Flatulandia" - several minutes of black and white footage of steam escaping from manholes segues to an interior scene of various creatures emerging from dry ice vapors - then shifts to show the filmmaker, clad in a leopard skin jump suit, attended by a nurse as he sits amidst the detritus of his duplex loft.
01 July 1964
One of four finished Batman Dracula shorts shown publicly by Warhol.
01 January 1970
The filmmaker brings his camera to the Bowery, filming the homeless, interacting with them.
30 December 1967
Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination.
01 January 1964
Part of Andy Warhol's Screen Tests series. Filmmaker and performance artist Jack Smith.
01 July 1964
Batman Dracula is a 1964 black and white American film produced and directed by Andy Warhol, without the permission of DC Comics.
26 January 2017
In his essay film, Jerry Tartaglia, longtime archivist and restorer of the film estate of queer New York underground, experimental film, and performance legend Jack Smith, deals less with Smith’s life than with his work, analyzing Smith’s aesthetic idiosyncrasies in 21 thematic chapters.
21 December 1964
A rapid montage collage featuring Jack Smith and a Warholian kiss.
01 January 1978
Presents Jack Smith in a perfomance entitled Rented Island, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts.
