Jack Smith

Jack Smith

Jack Smith was an American filmmaker, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema. He is generally acclaimed as a founding father of American performance art, and has been critically recognized as a master photographer, though his photographic works are rare and remain largely unknown.

  • Title: Jack Smith
  • Popularity: 3.505
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1932-11-14
  • Place of Birth: Columbus, Ohio, USA
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Jack Smith Movies

  • 1991
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    Shadows in the City

    Shadows in the City

    1 1991 HD

    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...

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  • 1972
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    Night of the Dark Full Moon

    Night of the Dark Full Moon

    5.093 1972 HD

    A man investigates the grisly crimes that occurred in a former insane asylum, unsettling the locals who all seem to have something to hide.

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  • 1985
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    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    1 1985 HD

    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

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  • 1968
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    Flaming Twenties

    Flaming Twenties

    1 1968 HD

    Features underground film makers and stars Jack Smith, Charles Ludlum, and Bill Vehr. A satirical film, comprising a collection of vignettes of the...

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  • 1963
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    Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming "Normal Love"

    Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming "Normal Love"

    1 1963 HD

    Andy Warhol film.

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  • 1966
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    Hedy

    Hedy

    1 1966 HD

    Egotistical faded star Hedy Lamarr visits a plastic surgeon to be transformed into the "14-year-old girl" she believes herself to be. She is then...

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  • 1965
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    Electrolux Lover

    Electrolux Lover

    1 1965 HD

    16mm, color, silent

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  • 1978
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    The Secret of Rented Island

    The Secret of Rented Island

    1 1978 HD

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

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  • 1970
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    The Bubble People

    The Bubble People

    1 1970 HD

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

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  • 1980
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    Love Thing

    Love Thing

    4 1980 HD

    Love Thing captures the emerging multicultural spirit and personal freedom of the late 1970s with an outrageous attitude and experimental style. A...

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  • 2006
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    Two Wrenching Departures

    Two Wrenching Departures

    5 2006 HD

    Made in response to the death of his friends Bob Fleischner and Jack Smith, who died within one week of each other in 1989, this feature includes...

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  • 1997
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    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    6.3 1997 HD

    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

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  • 1967
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    The Illiac Passion

    The Illiac Passion

    3.5 1967 HD

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

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  • 1964
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    Batman Dracula

    Batman Dracula

    4.1 1964 HD

    Batman Dracula is a 1964 black and white American film produced and directed by Andy Warhol, without the permission of DC Comics. The film was...

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  • 1981
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    The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man

    The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man

    6 1981 HD

    “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...

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  • 1963
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    Blonde Cobra

    Blonde Cobra

    2.9 1963 HD

    A man fondles objects, looks at himself in the mirror, poses in different clothes, smiles and makes faces at the camera while his voice on the...

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  • 1963
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    The Death of P'town

    The Death of P'town

    1 1963 HD

    Shot in Provincetown in the summer of '61 with the goal of funding a larger project, the film was never completed due to a violent argument between...

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  • 1963
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    Little Stabs at Happiness

    Little Stabs at Happiness

    5.6 1963 HD

    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...

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  • 1956
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    Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice

    Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice

    1 1956 HD

    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...

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  • 1956
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    Little Cobra Dance

    Little Cobra Dance

    1 1956 HD

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

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  • 1980
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    The Trap Door

    The Trap Door

    1 1980 HD

    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),...

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  • 1967
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    I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo for the Lucky Landlord.....

    I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo for the Lucky Landlord.....

    1 1967 HD

    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...

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  • 1969
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    Filmmakers

    Filmmakers

    1 1969 HD

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

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  • 1967
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    Poem Posters

    Poem Posters

    1 1967 HD

    ... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, William...

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  • 2017
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    Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith

    Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith

    1 2017 HD

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

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  • 1965
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    Camp

    Camp

    1 1965 HD

    Shot at Warhol's Silver Factory, Camp features a group of Superstars putting on a "summer camp" talent show complete with singing, dancing, jokes,...

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  • 1969
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    Song for Rent

    Song for Rent

    1 1969 HD

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

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  • 2007
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    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

    6.6 2007 HD

    In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...

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  • 1965
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    Dirt

    Dirt

    8 1965 HD

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

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  • 2004
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    Star Spangled to Death

    Star Spangled to Death

    7.5 2004 HD

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

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  • 1964
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    Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks

    Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks

    1 1964 HD

    This compilation of Gerard Malanga's short films consists of a collection of extremely rare footage and film portraits providing candid and...

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  • 1967
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    Joan of Arc

    Joan of Arc

    1 1967 HD

    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...

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  • 1964
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    The Soap Opera

    The Soap Opera

    10 1964 HD

    A documentary on the beginnings of the cultural revolution on the Lower East Side, New York.

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  • 1965
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    Andy Warhol Screen Tests

    Andy Warhol Screen Tests

    8 1965 HD

    The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light,...

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  • 1968
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    The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda

    The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda

    6.3 1968 HD

    At the court of the Yellow Emperor, the Majoon Traveler & Lady Firefly appear in the Hall of Unconscious Magnetism.

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  • 1964
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    Screen Test: Jack Smith

    Screen Test: Jack Smith

    1 1964 HD

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

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  • 1964
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    The Devil is Dead

    The Devil is Dead

    1 1964 HD

    A phantasmagoric exploration into the violence we house within ourselves.

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  • 2013
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    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    7.4 2013 HD

    An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

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  • 1963
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    Chumlum

    Chumlum

    6 1963 HD

    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...

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  • 1966
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    Satisfaction

    Satisfaction

    1 1966 HD

    Part of the Dirt Trilogy

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  • 1970
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    The Stone Age

    The Stone Age

    1 1970 HD

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

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  • 1964
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    Batman Dracula – “Batman on Beach with Nymph”

    Batman Dracula – “Batman on Beach with Nymph”

    1 1964 HD

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

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  • 1964
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    Batman Dracula – “Jack Gerard Smoking”

    Batman Dracula – “Jack Gerard Smoking”

    1 1964 HD

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

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  • 1963
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    Flaming Creatures

    Flaming Creatures

    4.654 1963 HD

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  • 1968
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    Normal Love Addendum Reel

    Normal Love Addendum Reel

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1970
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    Wino

    Wino

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1978
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    The Secret of Rented Island

    The Secret of Rented Island

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1966
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    In the Grip of the Lobster Claw

    In the Grip of the Lobster Claw

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1970
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    Zombie of Uncle Pawnshop

    Zombie of Uncle Pawnshop

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1981
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    Lucky Landlordism of Lobster Lagoon

    Lucky Landlordism of Lobster Lagoon

    1 1981 HD

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  • 1963
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    Flaming Creatures

    Flaming Creatures

    4.654 1963 HD

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  • 1963
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    Normal Love

    Normal Love

    7 1963 HD

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  • 1963
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    Overstimulated

    Overstimulated

    1 1963 HD

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  • 1962
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    Scotch Tape

    Scotch Tape

    4.2 1962 HD

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  • 1965
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    The Yellow Sequence

    The Yellow Sequence

    1 1965 HD

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  • 1969
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    No President

    No President

    5.3 1969 HD

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  • 1967
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    Jungle Island

    Jungle Island

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1969
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    Song for Rent

    Song for Rent

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1980
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    Hot Air Specialists

    Hot Air Specialists

    1 1980 HD

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  • 1966
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    Respectable Creatures

    Respectable Creatures

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1967
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    I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo for the Lucky Landlord.....

    I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo for the Lucky Landlord.....

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1963
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    Flaming Creatures

    Flaming Creatures

    4.654 1963 HD

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  • 1963
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    Flaming Creatures

    Flaming Creatures

    4.654 1963 HD

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  • 1963
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    Flaming Creatures

    Flaming Creatures

    4.654 1963 HD

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  • 1969
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    No President

    No President

    5.3 1969 HD

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  • 1960
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    The Andy Griffith Show

    The Andy Griffith Show

    7.6 1960 HD

    The Andy Griffith Show is an American sitcom first televised on CBS between October 3, 1960 and April 1, 1968. Andy Griffith portrays the widowed...

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