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BornNovember 14, 1932
DiedSeptember 25, 1989 (age 56)
Place of birthColumbus, Ohio, USA
Film credits48
Jack Smith
DeceasedKnown for 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.
Filmography
Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
2017
as Himself (archive footage)
I Am Divine
2014
as Self (archive)
Love Thing
2012
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011
as Himself (archive footage)
Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
2008
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007
as Self (archive footage)
Two Wrenching Departures
2006
Star Spangled to Death
2004
as The Spirit Not of Life But of Living
Birth of a Nation
1997
as Self
- No poster
Shadows in the City
1991
as Spirit of Death
Home Movies 1971-81
1985
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
1981
The Trap Door
1980
as Dr. Shrinkelstein
The Secret of Rented Island
1978
Night of the Dark Full Moon
1972
as Inmate
The Stone Age
1970
Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks
1970
as Self
Filmmakers
1969
as Himself
Song for Rent
1969
as Rose Courtyard
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
as Self
The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
1968
- No poster
Flaming Twenties
1968
The Illiac Passion
1967
as Orpheus
Poem Posters
1967
as Self