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Jack Smith

Jack SMITH (1932-1989) was born in Columbus, Ohio. As a biographer wrote, Jack Smith is the American avant-garde. He was active as a filmmaker, actor, playwright, photographer and illustrator for more than thirty years. Moving to New York in 1953, he helped transform the downtown scene into a vibrant and colourful display of glamour, sexuality and fantasy.

Filmography

Respectable Creatures (1950, short), Buzzards Over Bagdad (1951, short), Overstimulated (1959, short), Scotch Tape (1959, short), Flaming Creatures (1962, short), The Yellow Sequence (1963, short), Normal Love (1963), No President (1967, short), Jungle Island (1967, short), I Was A Male Yvonne De Carlo (1967, short), Normal Love Addendum Reel (1968, short), Song for Rent (1969, short), Hamlet (1976), Hot Air Specialists (1980, short)

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Jack Smith at IFFR

  • Flaming Creatures

    One of the most famous and notorious underground films from American film history: a decadent, exotic and exuberant feast.

    • Stephen Dwoskin - Focus

  • Song for Rent

    Filmmaker Jack Smith also stars in this funny short film, playing the cadaverous matron Rose Courtyard (inspired by Rose Kennedy). (Light Cone)

    • Bright Future Short

  • Normal Love

    The original title was The Great Pasty Triumph and other titles were Exotic Landlordism and Crab Lagoon. The actors are also far from ‘normal’. Jonas Mekas, who counts Normal Love among the masterpieces of underground cinema, whore that one of the actors was in a mental home. Another, Naomi Levine, plays a six-footed spider and […]

  • Flaming Creatures

    One of the most famous and notorious underground films from American film history: a decadent, exotic and exuberant feast.

  • Scotch tape

    îThe title is derived from the camera lens with which the film was shot; the lens was covered with transparent tape, deforming the image. What the camera can just pick out is that a group of actors from Smith’s well-known transvestite glitter world find their way through the ruins of New Jersey.