Jack Smith Movies

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

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

Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry.

A tropical island fantasy.

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

A lonely, bohemian poet befriends the good, the bad and the ugly in this rooftop drama set in New York's lower East side of Eden.

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

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...

... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, William...

Shot at Warhol's Silver Factory, Camp features a group of Superstars putting on a "summer camp" talent show complete with singing, dancing, jokes,...

Part of Andy Warhol's Screen Tests series. Filmmaker and performance artist Jack Smith.

An addendum to Jack Smith's NORMAL LOVE

Lost Jack Smith film

Lost Jack Smith film

Smith's third feature film was originally titled "The Kidnapping of Wendell Willkie by the Love Bandit," in reaction to the 1968 Presidential...

Part of the Dirt Trilogy

A sort of addendum to Smith's second feature, NORMAL LOVE, but which stands on its own as an anarchic ode to (and explosion of) pop culture,...

Jack Smith descends a fire escape in a makeshift "Arabian" costume and improvises increasingly frenetic choreography.

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

Features underground film makers and stars Jack Smith, Charles Ludlum, and Bill Vehr. A satirical film, comprising a collection of vignettes of the...