Jack Smith Movies

A tropical island fantasy.

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

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

Short film with Jack Smith as the mysterious leader of an even-more-mysterious cult, garbed in pseudo-papal regalia and adorned with jewelry and...

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

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...

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

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

One of four finished Batman Dracula shorts shown publicly by Warhol.

Lost Jack Smith film

Lost Jack Smith film

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

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

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

An addendum to Jack Smith's NORMAL LOVE

16mm, color, silent

A rapid montage collage featuring Jack Smith and a Warholian kiss.

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