Jack Smith Movies

“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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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),...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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,...