Jack Smith Movies

  • 1964
    Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks

    Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks

    Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks

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    This compilation of Gerard Malanga's short films consists of a collection of extremely rare footage and film portraits providing candid and...

    Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks
  • 1963
    The Death of P'town

    The Death of P'town

    The Death of P'town

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    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...

    The Death of P'town
  • 2007
    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

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

    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
  • 1964
    Batman Dracula – “Jack Gerard Smoking”

    Batman Dracula – “Jack Gerard Smoking”

    Batman Dracula – “Jack Gerard Smoking”

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

    Batman Dracula – “Jack Gerard Smoking”
  • 1963
    Little Stabs at Happiness

    Little Stabs at Happiness

    Little Stabs at Happiness

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    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...

    Little Stabs at Happiness
  • 1970
    The Bubble People

    The Bubble People

    The Bubble People

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

    The Bubble People
  • 1968
    Flaming Twenties

    Flaming Twenties

    Flaming Twenties

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    Features underground film makers and stars Jack Smith, Charles Ludlum, and Bill Vehr. A satirical film, comprising a collection of vignettes of the...

    Flaming Twenties
  • 1967
    Joan of Arc

    Joan of Arc

    Joan of Arc

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    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...

    Joan of Arc
  • 1963
    Blonde Cobra

    Blonde Cobra

    Blonde Cobra

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    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...

    Blonde Cobra
  • 1964
    Batman Dracula

    Batman Dracula

    Batman Dracula

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    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...

    Batman Dracula
  • 1969
    Song for Rent

    Song for Rent

    Song for Rent

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

    Song for Rent
  • 1964
    The Soap Opera

    The Soap Opera

    The Soap Opera

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

    The Soap Opera
  • 1991
    Shadows in the City

    Shadows in the City

    Shadows in the City

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    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...

    Shadows in the City
  • 1956
    Little Cobra Dance

    Little Cobra Dance

    Little Cobra Dance

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

    Little Cobra Dance
  • 1967
    Poem Posters

    Poem Posters

    Poem Posters

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    ... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, William...

    Poem Posters
  • 1981
    Lucky Landlordism of Lobster Lagoon

    Lucky Landlordism of Lobster Lagoon

    Lucky Landlordism of Lobster Lagoon

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    Lost Jack Smith film

    Lucky Landlordism of Lobster Lagoon
  • 1970
    Wino

    Wino

    Wino

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

    Wino
  • 1965
    The Yellow Sequence

    The Yellow Sequence

    The Yellow Sequence

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    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,...

    The Yellow Sequence
  • 1969
    Filmmakers

    Filmmakers

    Filmmakers

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    Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol. In each...

    Filmmakers
  • 1964
    Screen Test: Jack Smith

    Screen Test: Jack Smith

    Screen Test: Jack Smith

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

    Screen Test: Jack Smith