Jack Smith Movies

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

An addendum to Jack Smith's NORMAL LOVE

A documentation of a Jack Smith drag performance featuring a large red wig.

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...

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),...

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

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...

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

A documentary on the beginnings of the cultural revolution on the Lower East Side, New York.

Features underground film makers and stars Jack Smith, Charles Ludlum, and Bill Vehr. A satirical film, comprising a collection of vignettes of the...

A tropical island fantasy.

Made in response to the death of his friends Bob Fleischner and Jack Smith, who died within one week of each other in 1989, this feature includes...

Part of the Dirt Trilogy

A lonely, bohemian poet befriends the good, the bad and the ugly in this rooftop drama set in New York's lower East side of Eden.