When Ken Jacobs, Bob Fleischner and Jack Smith were studying camera techniques at CUNY night school in the mid-1950s, Jacobs...
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2007
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Aired in numerous formats for over four decades, New York underground filmmaker Ken Jacobs' assemblage of 16 mm fictional...
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The Spirit Not of Life But of Living
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2004
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Taking an avant-garde approach, experimental Russian painter turned director Ari Roussimoff creates an offbeat addition to...
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1991
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Jack Smith combined footage from various phases of his career for Respectable Creatures. There's additional material from...
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Cinematographer, Director, Editor
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1983
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This experimental drama comes from the avant-garde team Scott B. and Beth B. and is their last film made on Super-8 film. It...
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1980
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Filmmaker Jack Smith returns as his desiccated alter-ego, the ever-in-red Rose Courtyard. This time Rose gets lucky and is...
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Director, Editor, Rose Courtyard
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1979
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In this film, outspokenly homosexual filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim has documented his encounters with friends in the New York...
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1976
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The secrets of a small New England town are violently exposed on Christmas Eve in this proto-slasher shocker. The owner of...
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1973
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Underground filmmaker Jonas Mekas presents a collection of home movies, outtakes and unfinished projects. A picnic in...
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1970
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Filmmaker Jack Smith also stars in this funny short film, playing the cadaverous matron Rose Courtyard (inspired by Rose...
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Director, Editor, Rose Courtyard
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1969
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No President, Jack Smith's last 16 mm feature, combines found footage with his own production -- a crazed account of former...
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Cinematographer, Director, Editor
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1969
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Unscreened until 1998, almost a decade after Jack Smith's death, I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo contains footage he'd shot in...
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Director, Editor
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1968
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This Big Apple underground art film is based on the classic Greek play Prometheus Bound and presents assorted characters,...
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1968
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With Reefers of Technicolor Island, Jack Smith takes an affectionate look (in color) at marijuana and drag, two essential...
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Cinematographer, Director, Editor
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1967
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By 1965, Jack Smith was exhibiting versions of Normal Love, mixing his soundtracks live and often re-editing the film as it...
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Cinematographer, Director, Editor
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1965
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1964
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1964
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Jack Smith shot this six-minute black-and-white film in his New York City apartment probably sometime in 1959. Overstimulated...
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Cinematographer, Director, Editor
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1963
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One of the most celebrated of all underground films, Flaming Creatures excited national censorship controversies in its day...
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Cinematographer, Director, Editor
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1963
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In the late '50s, Jack Smith was acting in a film for director Bob Fleischner, but the project ended when the two had a...
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1963
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Shot in 1959, Scotch Tape is Jack Smith's first film -- a joyous, three-minute romp, in color, using Peter Duchin's rhumba...
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Cinematographer, Director
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1962
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1962
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A violent argument between actor Jack Smith and director Ken Jacobs terminated the shooting of this film not long after it...
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1961
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Director Ken Jacobs showcases the humor and vitality of performer Jack Smith in this silent black-and-white short. Draped in...
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1957
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This charming, short black-and-white comedy features Jack Smith as the mysterious leader of an even-more-mysterious cult,...
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1957
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