Jack Smith Movies

  • 1991
    Shadows in the City

    Shadows in the City

    Shadows in the City

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    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 him...

    Shadows in the City
  • 1972
    Night of the Dark Full Moon

    Night of the Dark Full Moon

    Night of the Dark Full Moon

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    A man investigates the grisly crimes that occurred in a former insane asylum, unsettling the locals who all seem to have something to hide.

    Night of the Dark Full Moon
  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

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    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 1968
    Flaming Twenties

    Flaming Twenties

    Flaming Twenties

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

    Flaming Twenties
  • 1963
    Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming "Normal Love"

    Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming "Normal Love"

    Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming "Normal Love"

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    Andy Warhol film.

    Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming "Normal Love"
  • 1966
    Hedy

    Hedy

    Hedy

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    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 caug...

    Hedy
  • 1965
    Electrolux Lover

    Electrolux Lover

    Electrolux Lover

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    16mm, color, silent

    Electrolux Lover
  • 1978
    The Secret of Rented Island

    The Secret of Rented Island

    The Secret of Rented Island

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

    The Secret of Rented Island
  • 2024
    The Bubble People

    The Bubble People

    The Bubble People

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

    The Bubble People
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

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    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1980
    Love Thing

    Love Thing

    Love Thing

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    Love Thing captures the emerging multicultural spirit and personal freedom of the late 1970s with an outrageous attitude and experimental style. A wor...

    Love Thing
  • 1981
    The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man

    The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man

    The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man

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    “New York plays itself, as Taylor Mead and Winifred Bryan regale in pas de deux among the trashcans and the towers. The Studiedly Goofy and the Monume...

    The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
  • 1967
    The Illiac Passion

    The Illiac Passion

    The Illiac Passion

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

    The Illiac Passion
  • 1963
    Blonde Cobra

    Blonde Cobra

    Blonde Cobra

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    A man fondles objects, looks at himself in the mirror, poses in different clothes, smiles and makes faces at the camera while his voice on the soundtr...

    Blonde Cobra
  • 1964
    Batman Dracula

    Batman Dracula

    Batman Dracula

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    Batman Dracula is a 1964 black and white American film produced and directed by Andy Warhol, without the permission of DC Comics. The film was screene...

    Batman Dracula
  • 2006
    Two Wrenching Departures

    Two Wrenching Departures

    Two Wrenching Departures

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    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 foot...

    Two Wrenching Departures
  • 1956
    Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice

    Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice

    Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice

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    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 makeu...

    Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice
  • 1963
    The Death of P'town

    The Death of P'town

    The Death of P'town

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    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 ac...

    The Death of P'town
  • 1956
    Little Cobra Dance

    Little Cobra Dance

    Little Cobra Dance

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

    Little Cobra Dance
  • 1963
    Little Stabs at Happiness

    Little Stabs at Happiness

    Little Stabs at Happiness

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    Little Stabs at Happiness is a collection of silent shorts Jacobs shot from the period of 1959-1963. Jaunty tunes (and a somber reflection) accompany...

    Little Stabs at Happiness