Jack Smith

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.

Cast

Shadows in the City

(Spirit of Death)

Night of the Dark Full Moon

(Inmate)

Home Movies 1971-81

Flaming Twenties

Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming "Normal Love"

(Self)

Hedy

(soothsayer)

Electrolux Lover

The Secret of Rented Island

The Bubble People

Birth of a Nation

(Self)

Love Thing

The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man

The Illiac Passion

(Orpheus)

Blonde Cobra

(Madame Nescience)

Batman Dracula

(Batman / Dracula)

Two Wrenching Departures

Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice

(Cult leader)

The Death of P'town

(Fairy Vampire)

Little Cobra Dance

Little Stabs at Happiness

(Himself)

The Trap Door

(Dr. Shrinkelstein)

I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo for the Lucky Landlord.....

Filmmakers

(Himself)

Poem Posters

(Self)

Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith

(Himself (archive footage))

Camp

Song for Rent

(Rose Courtyard)

Star Spangled to Death

(The Spirit Not of Life But of Living)

Dirt

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

(Self (archive footage))

Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks

(Self)

The Soap Opera

Joan of Arc

(Self)

Andy Warhol Screen Tests

(Self)

The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda

Screen Test: Jack Smith

(Himself)

The Devil is Dead

Chumlum

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

(Self)

Satisfaction

(God)

The Stone Age

Batman Dracula – “Batman on Beach with Nymph”

(Batman)

Batman Dracula – “Jack Gerard Smoking”

Jeremelu

Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory

Lovers of Eternity

I Am Divine

(Self (archive))

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

(Himself (archive footage))

The Andy Griffith Show

(Himself)