Jack Smith Movies

  • 2017
    Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith

    Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith

    Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith

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

    Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

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    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

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    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1963
    Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming

    Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming "Normal Love"

    Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming "Normal Love"

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    Andy Warhol film.

    Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming
  • 1963
    Chumlum

    Chumlum

    Chumlum

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    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...

    Chumlum
  • 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
  • 2006
    Two Wrenching Departures

    Two Wrenching Departures

    Two Wrenching Departures

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    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...

    Two Wrenching Departures
  • 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
  • 1980
    The Trap Door

    The Trap Door

    The Trap Door

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    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),...

    The Trap Door
  • 1966
    Satisfaction

    Satisfaction

    Satisfaction

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    Part of the Dirt Trilogy

    Satisfaction
  • 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
  • 2004
    Star Spangled to Death

    Star Spangled to Death

    Star Spangled to Death

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

    Star Spangled to Death
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1966
    In the Grip of the Lobster Claw

    In the Grip of the Lobster Claw

    In the Grip of the Lobster Claw

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    Lost Jack Smith film

    In the Grip of the Lobster Claw
  • 1964
    The Devil is Dead

    The Devil is Dead

    The Devil is Dead

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    A phantasmagoric exploration into the violence we house within ourselves.

    The Devil is Dead
  • 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
  • 1970
    The Stone Age

    The Stone Age

    The Stone Age

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

    The Stone Age
  • 1963
    Overstimulated

    Overstimulated

    Overstimulated

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

    Overstimulated