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.
Full Filmography
Directing
Scotch Tape
(1962)
Director
Normal Love
(1963)
Director
Overstimulated
(1963)
Director
Flaming Creatures
(1963)
Director
The Yellow Sequence
(1965)
Director
In the Grip of the Lobster Claw
(1966)
Director
Respectable Creatures
(1966)
Director
I Was A Male Yvonne De Carlo For The Lucky Landlord.....
(1967)
Director
Jungle Island
(1967)
Director
Normal Love Addendum Reel
(1968)
Director
Song for Rent
(1969)
Director
No President
(1969)
Director
Wino
(1970)
Director
The Secret of Rented Island
(1978)
Director
Hot Air Specialists
(1980)
Director
Lucky Landlordism of Lobster Lagoon
(1981)
Director
Acting
Little Cobra Dance
(1956)
Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice
(1956)
Cult leader
Blonde Cobra
(1963)
Madame Nescience
Chumlum
(1963)
Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming "Normal Love"
(1963)
Self
Little Stabs at Happiness
(1963)
Himself
The Death of P'town
(1963)
Fairy Vampire
The Soap Opera
(1964)
Screen Test: Jack Smith
(1964)
Himself
The Devil is Dead
(1964)
Batman Dracula
(1964)
Batman / Dracula
Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks
(1964)
Self
Dirt
(1965)
Electrolux Lover
(1965)
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
(1965)
Self
Camp
(1965)
Satisfaction
(1966)
God
Hedy
(1966)
soothsayer
Poem Posters
(1967)
Self
The Illiac Passion
(1967)
Orpheus
I Was A Male Yvonne De Carlo For The Lucky Landlord.....
(1967)
Joan of Arc
(1967)
The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
(1968)
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
(1968)
Self
Flaming Twenties
(1968)
Filmmakers
(1969)
Himself
Song for Rent
(1969)
Rose Courtyard
The Stone Age
(1970)
Night of the Dark Full Moon
(1972)
Inmate
The Secret of Rented Island
(1978)
The Trap Door
(1980)
Dr. Shrinkelstein
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
(1981)
Home Movies 1971-81
(1985)
Shadows in the City
(1991)
Spirit of Death
Birth of a Nation
(1997)
Self
Star Spangled to Death
(2004)
The Spirit Not of Life But of Living
Two Wrenching Departures
(2006)
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
(2007)
Self (archive footage)
Love Thing
(2012)
Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
(2017)
Himself (archive footage)
Camera
Production
Editing
Writing