Jack Smith Movies

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

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

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),...

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

Respectable Creatures is an unusual blending of Jack Smith's first known film, Buzzards over Baghdad, with stray images from Normal Love, concluding...

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

16mm, color, silent

Jack Smith descends a fire escape in a makeshift "Arabian" costume and improvises increasingly frenetic choreography.

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,...

A phantasmagoric exploration into the violence we house within ourselves.

Lost Jack Smith film

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

Lost Jack Smith film

Short film with Jack Smith as the mysterious leader of an even-more-mysterious cult, garbed in pseudo-papal regalia and adorned with jewelry and...

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

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

An addendum to Jack Smith's NORMAL LOVE