Jack Smith
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Known For:Directing
Birthday:1932-11-14
Place of Birth:Columbus, Ohio, USA
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Shadows in the City (1991)
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...

Night of the Dark Full Moon (1972)
A man investigates the grisly crimes that occurred in a former insane asylum, unsettling the locals who all seem to have something to hide.

Home Movies 1971-81 (1985)
Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

Flaming Twenties (1968)
Features underground film makers and stars Jack Smith, Charles Ludlum, and Bill Vehr. A satirical film, comprising a collection of vignettes of the...

Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming "Normal Love" (1963)
Andy Warhol film.

Hedy (1966)
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...

The Secret of Rented Island (1978)
Presents Jack Smith in a perfomance entitled Rented Island, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts.

The Bubble People (1970)
First film by interdisciplinary filmmaker Ela Troyano, featuring filmmaker Jack Smith.

The Illiac Passion (1967)
Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds...

Love Thing (2012)
Love Thing captures the emerging multicultural spirit and personal freedom of the late 1970s with an outrageous attitude and experimental style. A...

The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man (1981)
“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...

Little Cobra Dance (1956)
Jack Smith descends a fire escape in a makeshift "Arabian" costume and improvises increasingly frenetic choreography.

Little Stabs at Happiness (1963)
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...

Birth of a Nation (1997)
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice (1956)
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...

The Death of P'town (1963)
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...

Two Wrenching Departures (2006)
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...

Batman Dracula (1964)
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...

Blonde Cobra (1963)
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...

The Trap Door (1980)
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),...

I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo for the Lucky Landlord..... (1967)
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...

Filmmakers (1969)
Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol. In each...

Poem Posters (1967)
... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, William...

Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith (2017)
In his essay film, Jerry Tartaglia, longtime archivist and restorer of the film estate of queer New York underground, experimental film, and...

Camp (1965)
Shot at Warhol's Silver Factory, Camp features a group of Superstars putting on a "summer camp" talent show complete with singing, dancing, jokes,...

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

Dirt (1965)
Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry.

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2007)
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...

Star Spangled to Death (2004)
An examination of the history of the U.S. through archival footage and contrasting views of society, incorporating audiovisual material ranging from...

Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks (1964)
This compilation of Gerard Malanga's short films consists of a collection of extremely rare footage and film portraits providing candid and...

Joan of Arc (1967)
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...

The Soap Opera (1964)
A documentary on the beginnings of the cultural revolution on the Lower East Side, New York.

Andy Warhol Screen Tests (1965)
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,...

The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda (1968)
At the court of the Yellow Emperor, the Majoon Traveler & Lady Firefly appear in the Hall of Unconscious Magnetism.

Screen Test: Jack Smith (1964)
Part of Andy Warhol's Screen Tests series. Filmmaker and performance artist Jack Smith.

The Devil is Dead (1964)
A phantasmagoric exploration into the violence we house within ourselves.

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (2013)
An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

Chumlum (1963)
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...

The Stone Age (1970)
"The question is, it is either going to be a stoned age or a new Stone Age" - Louis Brigante

Batman Dracula – “Batman on Beach with Nymph” (1964)
One of four finished Batman Dracula shorts shown publicly by Warhol.

Batman Dracula – “Jack Gerard Smoking” (1964)
One of four finished Batman Dracula shorts shown publicly by Warhol.

Jeremelu (1964)
A rapid montage collage featuring Jack Smith and a Warholian kiss.

I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo for the Lucky Landlord..... (1967)

The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed...