Jack Smith Movies

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 documentary on the beginnings of the cultural revolution on the Lower East Side, New York.

Shot in 1959, Scotch Tape is Jack Smith's first film -- a joyous, three-minute romp, in color, using Peter Duchin's rhumba "Carinhoso" for its...

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

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...

Lost Jack Smith film

Lost Jack Smith film

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

16mm, color, silent

Lost Jack Smith film

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

A tropical island fantasy.

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

A phantasmagoric exploration into the violence we house within ourselves.

An addendum to Jack Smith's NORMAL LOVE

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

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

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