Jack Smith Movies

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

Andy Warhol film.

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...

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

Lost Jack Smith film

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

A tropical island fantasy.

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...

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,...

16mm, color, silent

A phantasmagoric exploration into the violence we house within ourselves.

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.

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

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

Lost Jack Smith film

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

An addendum to Jack Smith's NORMAL LOVE

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

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

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