Jack Smith Filmes

16mm, color, silent

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

Part of the Dirt Trilogy

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

A phantasmagoric exploration into the violence we house within ourselves.

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

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...

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.

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),...

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 tropical island fantasy.

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...

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

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...

Two men dressed as children jump up and down, ad nauseum

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