Jack Smith Movies

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

Andy Warhol film.

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,...

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

Lost Jack Smith film

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

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...

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...

An addendum to Jack Smith's NORMAL LOVE

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

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

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

The filmmaker brings his camera to the Bowery, filming the homeless, interacting with them.

Lost Jack Smith film

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

16mm, color, silent

A phantasmagoric exploration into the violence we house within ourselves.

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