Jack Smith

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Jack Smith

Directing November 14, 1932

Columbus, Ohio, USA

Jack Smith was an American filmmaker, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema. He is generally acclaimed as a founding father of American performance art, and has been critically…

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The Andy Griffith Show

The Andy Griffith Show

7.6 1960 TV Show
Night of the Dark Full Moon

Night of the Dark Full Moon

5.1 1972 Movie
I Am Divine

I Am Divine

7.3 2014 Movie
Flaming Creatures

Flaming Creatures

4.8 1963 Movie
Blonde Cobra

Blonde Cobra

3.0 1963 Movie
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

7.3 1968 Movie
Scotch Tape

Scotch Tape

4.4 1963 Movie
Little Stabs at Happiness

Little Stabs at Happiness

5.8 1963 Movie
Chumlum

Chumlum

6.1 1963 Movie
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

6.8 2011 Movie
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

6.7 2007 Movie
Batman Dracula

Batman Dracula

4.6 1964 Movie

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Jack Smith was an American filmmaker, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema. He is generally acclaimed as a founding father of American performance art, and has been critically recognized as a master photographer, though his photographic works are rare and remain largely unknown.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2017
    Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith

    Movie Himself (archive footage)

  2. 2014
    I Am Divine

    Movie Self (archive)

  3. 2012
    Love Thing

    Movie

  4. 2011
    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

    Movie Himself (archive footage)

  5. 2008
    Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory

    Movie

  6. 2007
    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

    Movie Self (archive footage)

  7. 2006
    Two Wrenching Departures

    Movie

  8. 2004
    Star Spangled to Death

    Movie The Spirit Not of Life But of Living

  9. 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Movie Self

  10. 1991
    Shadows in the City

    Movie Spirit of Death

  11. 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Movie

  12. 1981
    The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man

    Movie

  13. 1981
    Lucky Landlordism of Lobster Lagoon

    Movie Director

  14. 1980
    The Trap Door

    Movie Dr. Shrinkelstein

  15. 1980
    Hot Air Specialists

    Movie Director

  16. 1978
    The Secret of Rented Island

    Movie

More credits
  1. 1972
    Night of the Dark Full Moon

    Movie Inmate

  2. 1970
    The Stone Age

    Movie

  3. 1970
    Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks

    Movie Self

  4. 1970
    Wino

    Movie Director

  5. 1969
    No President

    Movie Director

  6. 1969
    Song for Rent

    Movie Rose Courtyard

  7. 1969
    Filmmakers

    Movie Himself

  8. 1968
    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Movie Self

  9. 1968
    The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda

    Movie

  10. 1968
    Normal Love Addendum Reel

    Movie Director

  11. 1968
    Flaming Twenties

    Movie

  12. 1967
    The Illiac Passion

    Movie Orpheus

  13. 1967
    Poem Posters

    Movie Self

  14. 1967
    Joan of Arc

    Movie Self

  15. 1967
    I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo for the Lucky Landlord.....

    Movie

  16. 1967
    Jungle Island

    Movie Director

  17. 1966
    Satisfaction

    Movie God

  18. 1966
    Hedy

    Movie soothsayer

  19. 1966
    Respectable Creatures

    Movie Director

  20. 1966
    In the Grip of the Lobster Claw

    Movie Director

  21. 1965
    The Yellow Sequence

    Movie Director

  22. 1965
    Andy Warhol Screen Tests

    Movie Self

  23. 1965
    Camp

    Movie

  24. 1965
    Normal Love

    Movie Director