Known For
Directing
Born
Nov 14, 1932
Died
Sep 25, 1989
Place of Birth
Columbus, Ohio, USA
Credits
63 titles
Jack Smith
Biography
Jack Smith was an American filmmaker, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema. He is generally acclaimed as a founding father of American performance art, and has been critically recognized as a master photographer, though his photographic works are rare and remain largely unknown.
Known For
Filmography
Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
Himself (archive footage)
I Am Divine
Self (archive)
Love Thing
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Himself (archive footage)
Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Self (archive footage)
Two Wrenching Departures
Star Spangled to Death
The Spirit Not of Life But of Living
Birth of a Nation
Self
Shadows in the City
Spirit of Death
Home Movies 1971-81
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
Lucky Landlordism of Lobster Lagoon
Director
The Trap Door
Dr. Shrinkelstein
Hot Air Specialists
Director
The Secret of Rented Island
Night of the Dark Full Moon
Inmate
The Stone Age
Wino
Director
Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks
Self
No President
Director
Song for Rent
Rose Courtyard
Filmmakers
Himself
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Self
The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
Normal Love Addendum Reel
Director
Flaming Twenties
The Illiac Passion
Orpheus
Poem Posters
Self
Joan of Arc
Self
Jungle Island
Director
I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo for the Lucky Landlord.....
Satisfaction
God
Hedy
soothsayer
Respectable Creatures
Director
In the Grip of the Lobster Claw
Director
The Yellow Sequence
Director
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Self
Camp
Normal Love
Director
Dirt
Electrolux Lover
Jeremelu
The Devil is Dead
Batman Dracula
Batman / Dracula
Batman Dracula – “Jack Gerard Smoking”
Batman Dracula – “Batman on Beach with Nymph”
Batman
Screen Test: Jack Smith
Himself
The Soap Opera
Lovers of Eternity