Jack Smith
DirectingJack 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.
Movies
Himself (archive footage)
Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
2017
Self (archive)
I Am Divine
2014
Love Thing
2012
Himself (archive footage)
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011
Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
2008
Self (archive footage)
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007
Two Wrenching Departures
2006
The Spirit Not of Life But of Living
Star Spangled to Death
2004
Self
Birth of a Nation
1997
Home Movies 1971-81
1985
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
1981
Dr. Shrinkelstein
The Trap Door
1980
The Secret of Rented Island
1978
Inmate
Night of the Dark Full Moon
1972
The Stone Age
1970
Self
Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks
1970
Himself
Filmmakers
1969
Rose Courtyard
Song for Rent
1969
Self
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
1968
