Jack Smith Movies

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

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

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

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

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

Lost Jack Smith film

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

A follow-up to now legendary film Flaming Creatures. This vivid, full-color homage to B-movies is a dizzying display of camp that clearly affirms...

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

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

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

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

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

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

A phantasmagoric exploration into the violence we house within ourselves.

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

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

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...

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

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