Jack Smith Movies

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

“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...

16mm, color, silent

In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...

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

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...

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...

During its 1969 showings at the Elgin Theater, No President was preceded by the color short filmed according to Smith’s direction by...

A follow-up to now legendary film Flaming Creatures. This vivid, full-color homage to B-movies is a dizzying display of camp that clearly affirms...

Andy Warhol film.

Respectable Creatures is an unusual blending of Jack Smith's first known film, Buzzards over Baghdad, with stray images from Normal Love, concluding...

A rapid montage collage featuring Jack Smith and a Warholian kiss.

Two men dressed as children jump up and down, ad nauseum

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,...

A phantasmagoric exploration into the violence we house within ourselves.

Lost Jack Smith film

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...

An examination of the history of the U.S. through archival footage and contrasting views of society, incorporating audiovisual material ranging from...

Part of Andy Warhol's Screen Tests series. Filmmaker and performance artist Jack Smith.

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...