Jack Smith Movies

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...

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...

16mm, color, silent

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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,...

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

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.

A phantasmagoric exploration into the violence we house within ourselves.

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

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

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

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...