Harry Smith Filmes

  • 1970
    Chelsea Hotel

    Chelsea Hotel

    Chelsea Hotel

    01970HD

    A pilot for a documentary film capturing life at the Chelsea Hotel in the early 1970s. The film was never finished due to budget issues. 'A...

    Chelsea Hotel
  • 1968
    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

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    Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family,...

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
  • 1980
    No. 18: Mahagonny

    No. 18: Mahagonny

    No. 18: Mahagonny

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    Harry Smith’s final film; an epic four-screen projection. Smith worked on this cinematic transformation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt...

    No. 18: Mahagonny
  • 2007
    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

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    This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...

    365 Day Project
  • 1965
    Andy Warhol Screen Tests

    Andy Warhol Screen Tests

    Andy Warhol Screen Tests

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    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,...

    Andy Warhol Screen Tests
  • 1971
    Ricky Leacock Visit, April 15, 1971

    Ricky Leacock Visit, April 15, 1971

    Ricky Leacock Visit, April 15, 1971

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    Jonas Mekas visit. Harry comes by before Ricky visit. 1. 12 p.m. April 15th -- Jonas dares to come by but won't talk. I tape him not with set up --...

    Ricky Leacock Visit, April 15, 1971
  • 2017
    Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel

    Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel

    Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel

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    The 94-year-old Robert Frank’s unique recordings of his fellow artists Harry Smith and Allen Ginsberg, which he had salvaged from his own...

    Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel
  • 1962
    Heaven and Earth Magic

    Heaven and Earth Magic

    Heaven and Earth Magic

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    The first part depicts the heroine's toothache consequent to the loss of a very valuable watermelon, her dentistry and transportation to heaven. Next...

    Heaven and Earth Magic
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

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    Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1987
    Home Movie

    Home Movie

    Home Movie

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    “Harry Smith visited my apartment on East 3rd Street, New York City, April 1987. Harry told someone calling him he was at “a secret...

    Home Movie
  • 1965
    Chinese Checkers

    Chinese Checkers

    Chinese Checkers

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    His Oriental predator is at first clothed in black, her 'victim' in white; slowly the costumes change, the victim acquiring a veil of mourning, until...

    Chinese Checkers
  • 1947
    No. 2: Message From the Sun

    No. 2: Message From the Sun

    No. 2: Message From the Sun

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    Hand-painted 35 mm stock photographed in 16 mm, color, 2:15 or 10 min. Initially intended to be screened with and synchronized to Dizzy Gillespie's...

    No. 2: Message From the Sun
  • 1939
    No. 1: A Strange Dream

    No. 1: A Strange Dream

    No. 1: A Strange Dream

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    Hand-painted 35 mm stock photographed in 16 mm, color, silent, 2:20 or 5 min. Initially intended to be screened with and synchronized to Dizzy...

    No. 1: A Strange Dream
  • 1956
    No. 10: Mirror Animations

    No. 10: Mirror Animations

    No. 10: Mirror Animations

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    Study for Film No. 11: Mirror Animations (1957). Harry Smith described the film as, “An exposition of Buddhism and the Kaballah in the form of...

    No. 10: Mirror Animations
  • 1949
    No. 5: Circular Tensions (Homage to Oskar Fischinger)

    No. 5: Circular Tensions (Homage to Oskar Fischinger)

    No. 5: Circular Tensions (Homage to Oskar Fischinger)

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    Experimental short. 16 mm, color, silent, 2:30 or 6 min. Sequel to No. 4.

    No. 5: Circular Tensions (Homage to Oskar Fischinger)
  • 1947
    No. 4: Fast Track

    No. 4: Fast Track

    No. 4: Fast Track

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    16 mm, black & white and color, 2:16 or 6 min. Silent though possibly intended to be screened with Dizzy Gillespie's Manteca. The film starts...

    No. 4: Fast Track
  • 1954
    No. 9

    No. 9

    No. 9

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    16 mm, color, 10 min. Untraced collage.

    No. 9
  • 1956
    No. 11: Mirror Animations

    No. 11: Mirror Animations

    No. 11: Mirror Animations

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    Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso.

    No. 11: Mirror Animations
  • 1947
    No. 3: Interwoven

    No. 3: Interwoven

    No. 3: Interwoven

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    Hand-painted 35 mm stock photographed in 16 mm, color, 3:20 or 10 min. Reportedly cut down from about 30 min. Initially intended to be screened with...

    No. 3: Interwoven
  • 1979
    No. 17: Mirror Animations

    No. 17: Mirror Animations

    No. 17: Mirror Animations

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    Features Thelonious Monk's Misterioso. Extended version of No. 11 printed forward-backward-forward.

    No. 17: Mirror Animations