Directing
Jack Smith
Born 1932-11-14 · Columbus, Ohio, USA · Died 1989-09-25
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
Silent Night, Bloody Night
Blonde Cobra
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Star Spangled to Death
Poem Posters
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Flaming Creatures
No President
Joan of Arc
Camp
The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
The Trap Door
The Yellow Sequence
Filmmakers
The Stone Age
I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo
Scotch Tape
Song for Rent
Overstimulated
Jungle Island
Screen Test: Jack Smith
Hot Air Specialists
The Devil is Dead
Respectable Creatures
The Death of P'town
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Normal Love
Little Cobra Dance
Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks
The Illiac Passion
Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice
Birth of a Nation
Chumlum
Two Wrenching Departures