Jack Smith

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...

A man investigates the grisly crimes that occurred in a former insane asylum, unsettling the locals who all seem to have something to hide.

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

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

Andy Warhol film.

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...

16mm, color, silent

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

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

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

Love Thing captures the emerging multicultural spirit and personal freedom of the late 1970s with an outrageous attitude and experimental style. A...

“New York plays itself, as Taylor Mead and Winifred Bryan regale in pas de deux among the trashcans and the towers. The Studiedly Goofy and the...

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

A man fondles objects, looks at himself in the mirror, poses in different clothes, smiles and makes faces at the camera while his voice on the...

Batman Dracula is a 1964 black and white American film produced and directed by Andy Warhol, without the permission of DC Comics. The film was...

Made in response to the death of his friends Bob Fleischner and Jack Smith, who died within one week of each other in 1989, this feature includes...

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...

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...

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

Little Stabs at Happiness is a collection of silent shorts Jacobs shot from the period of 1959-1963. Jaunty tunes (and a somber reflection) accompany...

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),...

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...

Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol. In each...

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

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

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

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

An examination of the history of the U.S. through archival footage and contrasting views of society, incorporating audiovisual material ranging from...

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

In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...

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

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

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...

The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light,...

At the court of the Yellow Emperor, the Majoon Traveler & Lady Firefly appear in the Hall of Unconscious Magnetism.

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

A phantasmagoric exploration into the violence we house within ourselves.

Ron Rice's Chumlum is one of those films in which the conditions of its construction are integral to the experience of watching it. It is a record of...

An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

Part of the Dirt Trilogy

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

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

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