Jack Smith Movies

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...

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

Lost Jack Smith film

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

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

Lost Jack Smith film

An addendum to Jack Smith's NORMAL LOVE

16mm, color, silent

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,...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

Lost Jack Smith film

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.