Jack Smith Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

Andy Warhol film.

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...

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...

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 phantasmagoric exploration into the violence we house within ourselves.

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.

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,...

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

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

Lost Jack Smith film

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

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

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