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...

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

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

16mm, color, silent

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...

Lost Jack Smith film

Lost Jack Smith film

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

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...

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...

Andy Warhol film.

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

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

An addendum to Jack Smith's NORMAL LOVE

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

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

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

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

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