Jack Smith Movies

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...

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...

“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...

16mm, color, silent

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 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,...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

A phantasmagoric exploration into the violence we house within ourselves.

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

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

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

Lost Jack Smith film