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.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.1028 |
| Birthday | 1932-11-14 |
| Place of Birth | Columbus, Ohio, USA |
| Also Known As |
1991
Shadows in the City
10/1
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...
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Shadows in the City
1972
Night of the Dark Full Moon
5.107/103
A man investigates the grisly crimes that occurred in a former insane asylum, unsettling the locals who all seem to have something to hide.
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Night of the Dark Full Moon
1985
Home Movies 1971-81
0/0
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
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Home Movies 1971-81
1968
Flaming Twenties
0/0
Features underground film makers and stars Jack Smith, Charles Ludlum, and Bill Vehr. A satirical film, comprising a collection of vignettes of the en...
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Flaming Twenties
1963
Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming "Normal Love"
0/0
Andy Warhol film.
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Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming "Normal Love"
1966
Hedy
10/1
Egotistical faded star Hedy Lamarr visits a plastic surgeon to be transformed into the "14-year-old girl" she believes herself to be. She is then caug...
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Hedy
1965
Electrolux Lover
0/0
16mm, color, silent
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Electrolux Lover
1978
The Secret of Rented Island
0/0
Presents Jack Smith in a perfomance entitled Rented Island, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts.
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The Secret of Rented Island
The Bubble People
7/1
First film by interdisciplinary filmmaker Ela Troyano, featuring filmmaker Jack Smith.
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The Bubble People
2012
Love Thing
4/3
Love Thing captures the emerging multicultural spirit and personal freedom of the late 1970s with an outrageous attitude and experimental style. A wor...
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Love Thing
2006
Two Wrenching Departures
5/2
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 foot...
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Two Wrenching Departures
1997
Birth of a Nation
7/4
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996. Fast...
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Birth of a Nation
1967
The Illiac Passion
4.286/7
Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to...
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The Illiac Passion
1964
Batman Dracula
4.611/9
Batman Dracula is a 1964 black and white American film produced and directed by Andy Warhol, without the permission of DC Comics. The film was screene...
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Batman Dracula
1981
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
6.286/7
“New York plays itself, as Taylor Mead and Winifred Bryan regale in pas de deux among the trashcans and the towers. The Studiedly Goofy and the Monume...
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The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
1963
Blonde Cobra
2.951/41
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 soundtr...
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Blonde Cobra
1961
The Death of P'town
10/1
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 ac...
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The Death of P'town
1963
Little Stabs at Happiness
5.833/18
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...
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Little Stabs at Happiness
1956
Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice
0/0
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 makeu...
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Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice
1956
Little Cobra Dance
0/0
Jack Smith descends a fire escape in a makeshift "Arabian" costume and improvises increasingly frenetic choreography.
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Little Cobra Dance
1980
The Trap Door
8/1
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), g...
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The Trap Door
1967
I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo for the Lucky Landlord.....
0/0
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 "Ma...
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I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo for the Lucky Landlord.....
1969
Filmmakers
0/0
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,...
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Filmmakers
1967
Poem Posters
0/0
... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, William Burroug...
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Poem Posters
2017
Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
0/0
In his essay film, Jerry Tartaglia, longtime archivist and restorer of the film estate of queer New York underground, experimental film, and performan...
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Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
1965
Camp
7/2
Shot at Warhol's Silver Factory, Camp features a group of Superstars putting on a "summer camp" talent show complete with singing, dancing, jokes, poe...
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Camp
1969
Song for Rent
0/0
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...
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Song for Rent
2007
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
6.6/9
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's perform...
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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
1965
Dirt
7.667/3
Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry.
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Dirt
2004
Star Spangled to Death
7.727/11
An examination of the history of the U.S. through archival footage and contrasting views of society, incorporating audiovisual material ranging from p...
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Star Spangled to Death
1970
Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks
0/0
This compilation of Gerard Malanga's short films consists of a collection of extremely rare footage and film portraits providing candid and interestin...
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Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks
1967
Joan of Arc
0/0
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. The film is experimental...
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Joan of Arc
1964
The Soap Opera
10/1
A documentary on the beginnings of the cultural revolution on the Lower East Side, New York.
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The Soap Opera
1965
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
8/3
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, a...
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Andy Warhol Screen Tests
1968
The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
6/13
At the court of the Yellow Emperor, the Majoon Traveler & Lady Firefly appear in the Hall of Unconscious Magnetism.
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The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
1964
Screen Test: Jack Smith
0/0
Part of Andy Warhol's Screen Tests series. Filmmaker and performance artist Jack Smith.
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Screen Test: Jack Smith
1964
The Devil is Dead
0/0
A phantasmagoric exploration into the violence we house within ourselves.
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The Devil is Dead
1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
7.2/30
Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family, friends,...
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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1963
Chumlum
6.077/13
Ron Rice's Chumlum is one of those films in which the conditions of its construction are integral to the experience of watching it. It is a record of...
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Chumlum
1966
Satisfaction
0/0
Part of the Dirt Trilogy
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Satisfaction
1970
The Stone Age
0/0
"The question is, it is either going to be a stoned age or a new Stone Age" - Louis Brigante
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The Stone Age
1964
Batman Dracula – “Batman on Beach with Nymph”
0/0
One of four finished Batman Dracula shorts shown publicly by Warhol.
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Batman Dracula – “Batman on Beach with Nymph”
1964
Batman Dracula – “Jack Gerard Smoking”
0/0
One of four finished Batman Dracula shorts shown publicly by Warhol.
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Batman Dracula – “Jack Gerard Smoking”
1964
Jeremelu
0/0
A rapid montage collage featuring Jack Smith and a Warholian kiss.
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Jeremelu
2008
Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
2.9/4
Takes an in-depth look at the lives and times of the people who hung out with Andy Warhol and "worked" at the Silver Factory during the Sixties, makin...
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Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
1964
Lovers of Eternity
9/1
A lonely, bohemian poet befriends the good, the bad and the ugly in this rooftop drama set in New York's lower East side of Eden.
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