Jack Smith Movies

Jack Smith poses in elaborate costumes, plays with everyday objects, and performs for the camera while his disjointed voiceover unfolds through...

16mm, color, silent

Takes an in-depth look at the lives and times of the people who hung out with Andy Warhol and "worked" at the Silver Factory during the Sixties,...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Lost Jack Smith film

Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously...

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

Lost Jack Smith film

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...

A phantasmagoric exploration into the violence we house within ourselves.

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...

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