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...

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...

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

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

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

Andy Warhol film.

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

Lost Jack Smith film

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...

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

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

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 the Dirt Trilogy

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

16mm, color, silent

Lost Jack Smith film

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

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

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

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