Jack Smith Movies

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Presents Jack Smith in a perfomance entitled Rented Island, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts.

A documentation of a Jack Smith drag performance featuring a large red wig.

Lost Jack Smith film

A tropical island fantasy.

A phantasmagoric exploration into the violence we house within ourselves.

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

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...

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

16mm, color, silent

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

Lost Jack Smith film

An addendum to Jack Smith's NORMAL LOVE