
Jack Smith
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

Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
2017 • Himself (archive footage)

Love Thing
2012

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

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007 • Self (archive footage)

Two Wrenching Departures
2006

Star Spangled to Death
2004 • The Spirit Not of Life But of Living

Birth of a Nation
1997 • Self
Shadows in the City
1991 • Spirit of Death
Full filmography

Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
View movie2017 • Himself (archive footage)
Shadows in the City
View movie1991 • Spirit of Death
Satisfaction
View movie1966 • God
Hedy
View movie1966 • soothsayer
Dirt
View movie1965
The Bubble People
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