Jack Smith Movies

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

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

16mm, color, silent

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

Lost Jack Smith film

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,...

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...

Andy Warhol film.

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

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 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),...

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

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...

A tropical island fantasy.

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

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

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

An addendum to Jack Smith's NORMAL LOVE