Movies: Jack Smith

A phantasmagoric exploration into the violence we house within ourselves....

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...

A documentary on the beginnings of the cultural revolution on the Lower East Side, New York....

One of four finished Batman Dracula shorts shown publicly by Warhol....

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. His followers do his bidding by abducting and cross-dressing an unsuspecting mailman. Smith launc...

Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol. In each portrait, Iimura attempts to copy the styles and traits of each artist (Vanderbeek's constantly moving camera...

Jack Smith descends a fire escape in a makeshift "Arabian" costume and improvises increasingly frenetic choreography....

A tropical island fantasy....

First film by interdisciplinary filmmaker Ela Troyano, featuring filmmaker Jack Smith....

A documentation of a Jack Smith drag performance featuring a large red wig....

One of four finished Batman Dracula shorts shown publicly by Warhol....

Lost Jack Smith film...

Lost Jack Smith film...

Presents Jack Smith in a perfomance entitled Rented Island, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts....

The filmmaker brings his camera to the Bowery, filming the homeless, interacting with them....

An addendum to Jack Smith's NORMAL LOVE...

16mm, color, silent...