Jack Smith Movies

  • 1964
    Batman Dracula – “Batman on Beach with Nymph”

    Batman Dracula – “Batman on Beach with Nymph”

    Batman Dracula – “Batman on Beach with Nymph”

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

    Batman Dracula – “Batman on Beach with Nymph”
  • 1970
    Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks

    Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks

    Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks

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    This compilation of Gerard Malanga's short films consists of a collection of extremely rare footage and film portraits providing candid and...

    Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks
  • 2017
    Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith

    Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith

    Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith

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    In his essay film, Jerry Tartaglia, longtime archivist and restorer of the film estate of queer New York underground, experimental film, and...

    Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
  • 1966
    Respectable Creatures

    Respectable Creatures

    Respectable Creatures

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

    Respectable Creatures
  • 1967
    I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo for the Lucky Landlord.....

    I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo for the Lucky Landlord.....

    I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo for the Lucky Landlord.....

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    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...

    I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo for the Lucky Landlord.....
  • 1991
    Shadows in the City

    Shadows in the City

    Shadows in the City

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    Paul Mills is a miserable, lonely man leading a meaningless existence in a nameless city and has visions of the Spirit of Death waiting to collect...

    Shadows in the City
  • 1970
    The Stone Age

    The Stone Age

    The Stone Age

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    "The question is, it is either going to be a stoned age or a new Stone Age" - Louis Brigante

    The Stone Age
  • 1966
    In the Grip of the Lobster Claw

    In the Grip of the Lobster Claw

    In the Grip of the Lobster Claw

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    Lost Jack Smith film

    In the Grip of the Lobster Claw
  • 1970
    Wino

    Wino

    Wino

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

    Wino
  • 1961
    The Death of P'town

    The Death of P'town

    The Death of P'town

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    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...

    The Death of P'town
  • 1963
    Flaming Creatures

    Flaming Creatures

    Flaming Creatures

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    Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously...

    Flaming Creatures
  • 1970
    Zombie of Uncle Pawnshop

    Zombie of Uncle Pawnshop

    Zombie of Uncle Pawnshop

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    Lost Jack Smith film

    Zombie of Uncle Pawnshop
  • 1964
    Jeremelu

    Jeremelu

    Jeremelu

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

    Jeremelu
  • 1963
    Blonde Cobra

    Blonde Cobra

    Blonde Cobra

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    Jack Smith poses in elaborate costumes, plays with everyday objects, and performs for the camera while his disjointed voiceover unfolds through...

    Blonde Cobra
  • 1963
    Overstimulated

    Overstimulated

    Overstimulated

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

    Overstimulated
  • 1956
    Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice

    Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice

    Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice

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    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...

    Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice
  • 1966
    Hedy

    Hedy

    Hedy

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    Egotistical faded star Hedy Lamarr visits a plastic surgeon to be transformed into the "14-year-old girl" she believes herself to be. She is then...

    Hedy
  • 1965
    Electrolux Lover

    Electrolux Lover

    Electrolux Lover

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    16mm, color, silent

    Electrolux Lover
  • 1980
    The Trap Door

    The Trap Door

    The Trap Door

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    A Nietzschian parable on the fate of innocence, THE TRAP DOOR follows the mishaps of Jeremy (John Ahearn) as he is fired by his boss (Jenny Holzer),...

    The Trap Door
  • 1965
    Dirt

    Dirt

    Dirt

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

    Dirt