Jack Smith Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

Part of the Dirt Trilogy

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...

A phantasmagoric exploration into the violence we house within ourselves.

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

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

Andy Warhol film.

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

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

16mm, color, silent

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