Cast: Jack Smith

Direction Jonas Mekas

Cast Timothy Leary · Ed Emshwiller · Jack Smith · Mario Montez

Synopsis Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. Walden, his first completed diary film, an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s, is...

Direction Jeffrey Schwarz

Cast Divine · John Waters · Ricki Lake · Tab Hunter

Synopsis "I am Divine" is a definitive biographical portrait of Harris Glenn Milstead, a.k.a. Divine, and honors him in just the way he always craved — as a serious artist and immortal star. Divine's entire story is told, from his early...

Direction Ron Rice

Cast Jack Smith · Beverly Grant · Mario Montez · Joel Markman

Direction Grace Ofori-Attah · Philip Barantini

Cast Niamh Algar · Lorne MacFadyen · Scott Chambers · Priyanka Patel

Synopsis TV Series (2023-). 1 Season. 5 Episodes. Dr Lucinda Edwards is a smart, battle-hardened doctor, but we meet her on a nightmare shift that ends in the death of an opioid overdose victim, Edith Owusu. Despite the support of her...

Direction Sidney Sheldon · Hal Cooper · Claudio Guzmán · Gene Nelson

Cast Barbara Eden · Larry Hagman · Bill Daily · Hayden Rorke

Synopsis Captain Tony Nelson is an astronaut. While on a mission, he discovered a mysterious bottle. Opening it, he released Jeannie (a Genie) who was so overjoyed at her release she promised to serve Captain Nelson. Nelson is unsure what to...

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Doris Day · Gordon MacRae · Jack Smith · Leon Ames

Synopsis The Winfield family moves into a new house in a small town in Indiana. Tomboy Marjorie Winfield begins a romance with William Sherman who lives across the street. Marjorie has to learn how to dance and act like a proper...

Direction Ken Jacobs

Cast Jack Smith

Synopsis A film in four parts. In "In the Room", a man and a woman in outlandish garb are sitting in a claw-foot bathtub smoking, while the man abuses a doll in various ways. In "They Stopped to Think", the filmmaker...

Direction Ken Jacobs

Cast Ken Jacobs · Jack Smith

Synopsis A man fondles objects, looks at himself in the mirror, poses in different clothes, smiles and makes faces at the camera while his voice on the soundtrack speaks of his despair, makes impressionistic statements and little songs, quotes greta garbo...

Direction Ken Jacobs

Cast Jack Smith

Synopsis Short film with Jack Smith as the mysterious leader of an even-more-mysterious cult, garbed in pseudo-papal regalia and adorned with jewelry and makeup. His followers do his bidding by abducting and cross-dressing an unsuspecting mailman. Smith launches a processional and...

Direction Mary Jordan

Cast Jack Smith

Synopsis A mesmerizing collage of images and audio from the life and work of Jack Smith, the underground filmmaker, photographer, performance artist, and anti-capitalist, who worked in New York from the '60s until his death in 1989. Highlights include the story...

Direction Ari M. Roussimoff

Cast Craig Smith · Bruce Byron · Jack Smith · Emile de Antonio

Synopsis Paul Mills is a miserable, lonely man leading a meaningless existence in a nameless city and has visions of the Spirit of Death waiting to collect him while having encounters with various people while seeking solace for his short life...

Direction Ken Jacobs

Cast Jack Smith · Carolee Schneemann · Ken Jacobs

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Cast Stan Brakhage · Takahiko Iimura · Jonas Mekas · Jack Smith

Synopsis Iimura creates a short self-portrait as well as brief portraits of five of his peers: Brakhage, Vanderbeek, Smith, Mekas and Warhol. In each portrait, Iimura attempts to copy the styles and traits of each artist (Vanderbeek’s constantly moving camera; Mekas’...

Direction Ken Jacobs

Cast Jack Smith

Synopsis Shot in Provincetown in the summer of ‘61 with the goal of funding a larger project, the film was never completed due to a violent argument between actor Jack Smith and director Ken Jacobs shortly after the shooting began. A...

Direction David Scheinmann

Cast Jack Smith · Brian Cox · Natascha McElhone · Anne Reid

Synopsis A young, gifted football player who gets into trouble for a petty crime is brought to the attention of former Manchester United coach Matt Busby, who comes out of retirement to help the boy and his teammates.

Direction Ken Jacobs

Cast Jack Smith · Jerry Sims · Gib Taylor · Bill Carpenter

Synopsis Combining found-films with Jacobs' own more-or-less staged filming, Star Spangled to Death pictures a stolen and dangerously sold-out America, allowing examples of popular culture to self-indict. Racial and religious insanity, monopolization of wealth and the purposeful dumbing down of citizens...

Direction Andy Awes · Raul Cadena · Ben Krueger · Bo Hakala

Cast Jeremy Frandrup · Emily Fradenburgh · Matt Roy · Charles Hubbell

Synopsis For as long as humanity has existed, there have been stories about terrifying monsters. However, what evidence lies behind them? What was the inspiration for the Labyrinth of the Minotaur? Could the giant one eyed Cyclops have really walked the...

Direction Gregory J. Markopoulos

Cast Richard Beauvais · David Beauvais · Robert Alvarez · Taylor Mead

Synopsis One of Markopoulos’s most critically acclaimed films, The Illiac Passion is an ambitious work based on Prometheus Unbound. For his cast, Markopoulos made imaginative use of artist friends and underground figures in the roles of mythical beings.

Direction Ken Jacobs

Cast Jack Smith

Synopsis Jack Smith descends a fire escape in a makeshift “Arabian” costume and improvises increasingly frenetic choreography.