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The Death of P’town | Fairy Vampire | 1963-01-01 | 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 ac… |
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Little Cobra Dance | | 1956-01-01 | Jack Smith descends a fire escape in a makeshift “Arabian” costume and improvises increasingly frenetic choreography…. |
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Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice | Cult leader | 1956-01-01 | 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 makeu… |
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I Was A Male Yvonne De Carlo For The Lucky Landlord….. | | 1967-01-01 | I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo is one of several films and slide shows that feature Smith as a mock celebrity. It opens with the excerpt from No Preside… |
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Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith | Himself (archive footage) | 2017-01-26 | In his essay film, Jerry Tartaglia, longtime archivist and restorer of the film estate of queer New York underground, experimental film, and performan… |
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Song for Rent | Rose Courtyard | 1969-01-01 | During its 1969 showings at the Elgin Theater, No President was preceded by the color short filmed according to Smith’s direction by photographer Do… |
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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis | Himself (archive footage) | 2007-04-11 | In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith’s perform… |
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Star Spangled to Death | The Spirit Not of Life But of Living | 2004-05-21 | An examination of the history of the U.S. through archival footage and contrasting views of society, incorporating audiovisual material ranging from p… |
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Screen Test: Jack Smith | Himself | 1964-01-01 | Part of Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests series. Filmmaker and performance artist Jack Smith…. |
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The Devil is Dead | | 1964-12-14 | A phantasmagoric exploration into the violence we house within ourselves…. |
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Chumlum | | 1963-12-29 | Ron Rice’s Chumlum is one of those films in which the conditions of its construction are integral to the experience of watching it. It is a record of … |
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Blonde Cobra | Madame Nescience | 1963-04-08 | 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 soundtr… |
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Two Wrenching Departures | | 2006-01-01 | Made in response to the death of his friends Bob Fleischner and Jack Smith, who died within one week of each other in 1989, this feature includes foot… |
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Little Stabs at Happiness | Himself | 1963-09-16 | Little Stabs at Happiness is a collection of silent shorts Jacobs shot from the period of 1959-1963. Jaunty tunes (and a somber reflection) accompany … |
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Shadows in the City | Spirit of Death | 1990-01-01 | 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… |
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Filmmakers | Himself | 1969-01-01 | 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,… |
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Camp | | 1965-11-22 | Shot at Warhol’s Silver Factory, Camp features a group of Superstars putting on a “summer camp” talent show complete with singing, dancing, jokes, poe… |
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The Soap Opera | | 1964-01-01 | A documentary on the beginnings of the cultural revolution on the Lower East Side, New York…. |
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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches | Self | 1969-12-01 | An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s…. |
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The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man | | 1981-08-01 | “New York plays itself, as Taylor Mead and Winifred Bryan regale in pas de deux among the trashcans and the towers. The Studiedly Goofy and the Monu… |
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Love Thing | | 2012-05-22 | Love Thing captures the emerging multicultural spirit and personal freedom of the late 1970s with an outrageous attitude and experimental style. A wor… |
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Satisfaction | God | 1966-03-31 | Part of the Dirt Trilogy… |
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Gerard Malanga’s Film Notebooks | Self | 1964-01-01 | This compilation of Gerard Malanga’s short films consists of a collection of extremely rare footage and film portraits providing candid and interestin… |
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Hedy | soothsayer | 1966-03-03 | Egotistical faded star Hedy Lamarr visits a plastic surgeon to be transformed into the “14-year-old girl” she believes herself to be. She is then caug… |
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The Trap Door | Dr. Shrinkelstein | 1980-09-01 | A Nietzschian parable on the fate of innocence, THE TRAP DOOR follows the mishaps of Jeremy (John Ahearn) as he is fired by his boss (Jenny Holzer), g… |
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Poem Posters | Himself | 1967-05-19 | … with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O’Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, William Burroug… |
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The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda | | 1968-01-07 | At the court of the Yellow Emperor, the Majoon Traveler & Lady Firefly appear in the Hall of Unconscious Magnetism…. |
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Joan of Arc | | 1967-12-26 | The story of Joan of Arc as applied to the present revolution in arts and more. The Gothic is applied to the War in Vietnam. The film is experimental … |
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Dirt | | 1965-09-25 | Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry…. |
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Batman Dracula | Batman / Dracula | 1964-01-01 | Batman Dracula is a 1964 black and white American film produced and directed by Andy Warhol, without the permission of DC Comics. The film was screene… |
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The Illiac Passion | Orpheus | 1967-12-30 | Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to… |
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Silent Night, Bloody Night | Inmate | 1972-11-01 | On Christmas Eve 1950, Wilfred Butler dies in a burning accident outside his mansion in East Willard, Massachusetts. The residence is bequeathed to hi… |
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The Stone Age | | 1970-01-31 | “The question is, it is either going to be a stoned age or a new Stone Age” – Louis Brigante… |
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Birth of a Nation | Himself | 1997-01-01 | Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades…. |
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Andy Warhol Screen Tests | Self | 1965-11-28 | The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol’s Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, a… |
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