
Jack Smith
Department: Directing
Biography
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.
Known For

Shadows in the City
1991

Night of the Dark Full Moon
1972

Home Movies 1971-81
1985

Flaming Twenties
1968

Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming "Normal Love"
1963

Hedy
1966

Electrolux Lover
1965

The Secret of Rented Island
1978

The Bubble People
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Love Thing
2012

Two Wrenching Departures
2006

Birth of a Nation
1997

The Illiac Passion
1967

Batman Dracula
1964

The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
1981

Blonde Cobra
1963

The Death of P'town
1961

Little Stabs at Happiness
1963

Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice
1956

Little Cobra Dance
1956

The Trap Door
1980

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

Filmmakers
1969

Poem Posters
1967

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

Camp
1965

Song for Rent
1969

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007

Dirt
1965

Star Spangled to Death
2004

Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks
1970

Joan of Arc
1967

The Soap Opera
1964

Andy Warhol Screen Tests
1965

The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
1968

Screen Test: Jack Smith
1964

The Devil is Dead
1964

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968

Chumlum
1963

Satisfaction
1966

The Stone Age
1970

Batman Dracula – “Batman on Beach with Nymph”
1964

Batman Dracula – “Jack Gerard Smoking”
1964

Jeremelu
1964

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

The Andy Griffith Show
1960