Jack Smith Movies

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

Part of Andy Warhol's Screen Tests series. Filmmaker and performance artist Jack Smith.

Two men dressed as children jump up and down, ad nauseum

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

Lost Jack Smith film

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

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 tropical island fantasy.

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

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

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

16mm, color, silent

A phantasmagoric exploration into the violence we house within ourselves.

Lost Jack Smith film

Lost Jack Smith film

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

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

An addendum to Jack Smith's NORMAL LOVE