Transformations on the Margin: Jack Smith’s Vital and Difficult …
Jun 2, 2021 · Jack Smith was a visionary American filmmaker, photographer and avant-garde performance artist who was born in 1932 and died of a HIV/Aids related illness in 1989. His immense courage, self-assurance and the strength of …
The absurdity of fixation: Jack Smith and Flaming Creatures
Aug 14, 2016 · It galvanized that city’s avant-garde film, theatre, and performance scenes, inspiring them to explore and display homosexuality, radical politics, and the constant questioning of rationality and social norms. But Smith didn’t specifically set out to make this happen.
Jack Smith initially surfaced in the American avant-garde arts scene as a performer in films by Ken Jacobs. Smith met Jacobs during a brief stint studying film at the City College of New York in the mid-1950s.
Jack Smith: Art Crust of Spiritual Oasis - Artists Space
Sep 16, 2018 · With his shadow looming over the development of avant-garde film, performance, photography, and critical discourse in New York between the 1960s and 1980s, Jack Smith nonetheless remains an outlier among the many artistic …
Jack Smith: Flaming Creature - MoMA
Oct 29, 1997 · Jack Smith captured the attention of the international avant—garde in 1963 with the presentation of his first major film, Flaming Creatures. Demonized by charges of obscenity, Smith’s film became a political tool of conservative politicians and …
Eye on the Underground: Avant-garde pioneer Jack Smith
Oct 21, 2011 · Who was Jack Smith, really, and why does this wholly unique filmmaker continue to inspire his cinematic progeny to new heights of gorgeous madness?
Smith, Jack: Travails of an Underground Artist
May 27, 2022 · As Jack Smith (born in 1932), visionary filmmaker, photographer and avant-garde performance artist lay dying in 1989 of an HIV/AIDS related illness at New York’s Beth Israel Hospital, he was still as irascible as ever.
Jack SMITH - Light Cone
In avant-garde theater and performance art, Smith’s influence reaches Robert Wilson, Charles Ludlam, John Vaccaro, Cindy Sherman, John Bock and Richard Foreman.
Avant-garde filmmaker Jack Smith in spotlight | Reuters
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - An important and unjustly neglected figure of avant-garde cinema gets chronicled in "Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis," which recently received...
Jack Smith - hi-beam.net
Vanguard Filmmaker, radical photographer, seminal performance artist, Queer saint: the late Jack Smith maintained an intense, lifelong rapture conjured out of the frayed magic and glamour of a Hollywood that had come to camp out on the movie set of his own mind.
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