Jack Smith
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.
Night of the Dark Full Moon
as InmateA man investigates the grisly crimes that occurred in a former insane asylum, unsettling the...
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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
as SelfAn epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.
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Blonde Cobra
as Madame NescienceA man fondles objects, looks at himself in the mirror, poses in different clothes, smiles and...
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Birth of a Nation
as SelfFilmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
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Chumlum
as uncreditedRon Rice's Chumlum is one of those films in which the conditions of its construction are...
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Andy Warhol Screen Tests
as SelfThe films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects...
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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
as Self (archive footage)In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker...
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Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks
as SelfThis compilation of Gerard Malanga's short films consists of a collection of extremely rare...
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Joan of Arc
as uncreditedThe story of Joan of Arc as applied to the present revolution in arts and more. The Gothic is...
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Love Thing
as uncreditedLove Thing captures the emerging multicultural spirit and personal freedom of the late 1970s...
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Camp
as uncreditedShot at Warhol's Silver Factory, Camp features a group of Superstars putting on a "summer camp"...
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The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
as uncredited“New York plays itself, as Taylor Mead and Winifred Bryan regale in pas de deux among the...
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Poem Posters
as Self... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil...
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The Illiac Passion
as OrpheusPrometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of...
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Home Movies 1971-81
as uncreditedHome movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
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Filmmakers
as HimselfIimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage,...
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Two Wrenching Departures
as uncreditedMade in response to the death of his friends Bob Fleischner and Jack Smith, who died within one...
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Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
as Himself (archive footage)In his essay film, Jerry Tartaglia, longtime archivist and restorer of the film estate of queer...
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The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
as uncreditedAt the court of the Yellow Emperor, the Majoon Traveler & Lady Firefly appear in the Hall of...
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Little Stabs at Happiness
as HimselfLittle Stabs at Happiness is a collection of silent shorts Jacobs shot from the period of...
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The Stone Age
as uncredited"The question is, it is either going to be a stoned age or a new Stone Age" - Louis Brigante
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Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice
as Cult leaderShort film with Jack Smith as the mysterious leader of an even-more-mysterious cult, garbed in...
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Star Spangled to Death
as The Spirit Not of Life But of LivingAn examination of the history of the U.S. through archival footage and contrasting views of...
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Little Cobra Dance
as uncreditedJack Smith descends a fire escape in a makeshift "Arabian" costume and improvises increasingly...
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Screen Test: Jack Smith
as HimselfPart of Andy Warhol's Screen Tests series. Filmmaker and performance artist Jack Smith.
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The Death of P'town
as Fairy VampireShot in Provincetown in the summer of '61 with the goal of funding a larger project, the film...
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The Trap Door
as Dr. ShrinkelsteinA Nietzschian parable on the fate of innocence, THE TRAP DOOR follows the mishaps of Jeremy...
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The Devil is Dead
as uncreditedA phantasmagoric exploration into the violence we house within ourselves.
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I Was A Male Yvonne De Carlo For The Lucky Landlord.....
as uncreditedI Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo is one of several films and slide shows that feature Smith as a...
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Song for Rent
as Rose CourtyardDuring its 1969 showings at the Elgin Theater, No President was preceded by the color short...
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The Andy Griffith Show
as HimselfThe Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and...
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