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Jack Smith

Jack Smith

Born: 1932-11-14 • Columbus, Ohio, USA

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.

Filmography
Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith poster
Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
2017 • Himself (archive footage)
Love Thing poster
Love Thing
2012
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis poster
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007 • Self (archive footage)
Two Wrenching Departures poster
Two Wrenching Departures
2006
Star Spangled to Death poster
Star Spangled to Death
2004 • The Spirit Not of Life But of Living
Birth of a Nation poster
Birth of a Nation
1997 • Self
No Image
Shadows in the City
1991 • Spirit of Death
Home Movies 1971-81 poster
Home Movies 1971-81
1985
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man poster
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
1981
The Trap Door poster
The Trap Door
1980 • Dr. Shrinkelstein
The Secret of Rented Island poster
The Secret of Rented Island
1978
Night of the Dark Full Moon poster
Night of the Dark Full Moon
1972 • Inmate
The Stone Age poster
The Stone Age
1970
Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks poster
Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks
1970 • Self
Filmmakers poster
Filmmakers
1969 • Himself
Song for Rent poster
Song for Rent
1969 • Rose Courtyard
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches poster
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968 • Self
The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda poster
The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
1968
No Image
Flaming Twenties
1968
The Illiac Passion poster
The Illiac Passion
1967 • Orpheus
Poem Posters poster
Poem Posters
1967 • Self
Joan of Arc poster
Joan of Arc
1967 • Self
I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo for the Lucky Landlord..... poster
I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo for the Lucky Landlord.....
1967
No Image
Satisfaction
1966 • God
No Image
Hedy
1966 • soothsayer
Andy Warhol Screen Tests poster
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
1965 • Self
Camp poster
Camp
1965
No Image
Dirt
1965
Electrolux Lover poster
Electrolux Lover
1965
Jeremelu poster
Jeremelu
1964
The Devil is Dead poster
The Devil is Dead
1964
Batman Dracula poster
Batman Dracula
1964 • Batman / Dracula
Batman Dracula – “Batman on Beach with Nymph” poster
Batman Dracula – “Batman on Beach with Nymph”
1964 • Batman
Batman Dracula – “Jack Gerard Smoking” poster
Batman Dracula – “Jack Gerard Smoking”
1964
No Image
The Soap Opera
1964
Screen Test: Jack Smith poster
Screen Test: Jack Smith
1964 • Himself
Chumlum poster
Chumlum
1963
No Image
Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming "Normal Love"
1963 • Self
Little Stabs at Happiness poster
Little Stabs at Happiness
1963 • Himself
Blonde Cobra poster
Blonde Cobra
1963 • Madame Nescience
The Death of P'town poster
The Death of P'town
1961 • Fairy Vampire
Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice poster
Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice
1956 • Cult leader
Little Cobra Dance poster
Little Cobra Dance
1956
No Image
The Bubble People