Jack Smith Movies

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

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

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

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

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

16mm, color, silent

In his essay film, Jerry Tartaglia, longtime archivist and restorer of the film estate of queer New York underground, experimental film, and...

Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds...

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

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

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

Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry.

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,...

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

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

Shot in 1959, Scotch Tape is Jack Smith's first film -- a joyous, three-minute romp, in color, using Peter Duchin's rhumba "Carinhoso" for its...

Smith's third feature film was originally titled "The Kidnapping of Wendell Willkie by the Love Bandit," in reaction to the 1968 Presidential...

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

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),...

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