Jack Smith Movies

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

The story of Joan of Arc as applied to the present revolution in arts and more. The Gothic is applied to the War in Vietnam. The film is experimental...

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

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

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

16mm, color, silent

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

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

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

A follow-up to now legendary film Flaming Creatures. This vivid, full-color homage to B-movies is a dizzying display of camp that clearly affirms...

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

Andy Warhol film.

Part of the Dirt Trilogy

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

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

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

Lost Jack Smith film

An addendum to Jack Smith's NORMAL LOVE

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,...

Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds...