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Jack Smith (film director), the Glossary

Jack Smith (November 14, 1932 – September 18, 1989) was an American filmmaker, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema.^[1]

85 relations: Actor, Aesthetics, Andy Warhol, Artists Space, Atlantis, B movie, Barbara Gladstone, Batman Dracula, Beverly Grant (actress), Blonde Cobra, Camp (1965 film), Camp (style), Candy Darling, Cannabis (drug), Chumlum, Colab, Columbia University, Columbus, Ohio, Crab, Diane di Prima, Doctor of Humane Letters, Drafter, Edward Leffingwell, Exotica, Flaming Creatures, Frankenhooker, Guy Maddin, HIV/AIDS, Incense, Intermedia, J. Hoberman, Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis, John Carradine, John Lennon, John Waters, Jonathan Demme, Ken Jacobs, Kitsch, Landlord, Lobster, Ludlow Street (Manhattan), Maria Montez, Mario Montez, Mary Jordan (filmmaker), Mary Woronov, MIT Press, MoMA PS1, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York Surrogate's Court, ... Expand index (35 more) »

Actor

An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a production.

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Aesthetics

Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and the nature of taste; and functions as the philosophy of art.

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Andy Warhol (born Andrew Warhola Jr.; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American visual artist, film director and producer. Jack Smith (film director) and andy Warhol are American LGBT film directors and American experimental filmmakers.

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Artists Space

Artists Space is a non-profit art gallery and arts organization first established at 155 Wooster Street in SoHo, Manhattan, New York City.

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Atlantis

Atlantis (Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος|island of Atlas) is a fictional island mentioned in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias as part of an allegory on the hubris of nations.

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B movie

A B movie (American English), or B film (British English), is a type of low-budget commercial motion picture.

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Barbara Gladstone

Barbara Gladstone (née Levitt; May 21, 1935 – June 16, 2024) was an American art dealer and film producer.

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Batman Dracula

Batman Dracula is a 1964 black and white American superhero fan film produced and directed by Andy Warhol without the permission of DC Comics, who owns the character Batman.

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Beverly Grant (actress)

Beverly Grant (October 14, 1936 – July 4, 1990) was an actress and filmmaker who appeared in films by Andy Warhol, Jack Smith, Gregory Markopoulos, Ira Cohen, Ron Rice, and Stephen Dwoskin, on the off-off Broadway stage in works by Ronald Tavel and LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), as well as collaborated with her one-time husband, experimental filmmaker and musician, Tony Conrad.

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Blonde Cobra

Blonde Cobra is a 1963 short film directed by experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs.

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Camp (1965 film)

Camp is a 1965 feature-length underground film directed by Andy Warhol in October 1965 at The Factory.

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Camp (style)

Camp is an aesthetic style and sensibility that regards something as appealing because of perceived bad taste and ironic value.

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Candy Darling

Candy Darling (November 24, 1944 – March 21, 1974) was an American transgender actress, best known as a Warhol superstar.

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Cannabis (drug)

Cannabis, also known as marijuana or weed, among other names, is a non-chemically uniform drug from the cannabis plant.

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Chumlum

Chumlum is a 1963 American experimental short film directed by Ron Rice.

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Colab

Colab is the commonly used abbreviation of the New York City artists' group Collaborative Projects, which was formed after a series of open meetings between artists of various disciplines.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Columbus, Ohio

Columbus is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio.

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Crab

Crabs are decapod crustaceans of the infraorder Brachyura, which typically have a very short projecting tail-like abdomen, usually hidden entirely under the thorax (brachyura means "short tail" in Greek).

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Diane di Prima

Diane di Prima (August 6, 1934October 25, 2020) was an American poet, known for her association with the Beat movement.

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Doctor of Humane Letters

The degree of Doctor of Humane Letters (DHumLitt, DHL, or LHD) is an honorary degree awarded to those who have distinguished themselves through humanitarian and philanthropic contributions to society.

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Drafter

A drafter (also draughtsman / draughtswoman in British and Commonwealth English, draftsman / draftswoman, drafting technician, or CAD technician in American and Canadian English) is an engineering technician who makes detailed technical drawings or CAD designs for machinery, buildings, electronics, infrastructure, sections, etc.

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Edward Leffingwell

Edward G. Leffingwell (December 3, 1941 – August 5, 2014), was an American art critic and curator, affiliated with MoMA/P.S.1 and Art in AmericaRoberta Smith, (obituary), The New York Times, Aug.

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Exotica

Exotica is a musical genre, named after the 1957 Martin Denny album of the same name that was popular during the 1950s to mid-1960s with Americans who came of age during World War II.

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Flaming Creatures

Flaming Creatures is a 1963 American experimental film directed by Jack Smith.

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Frankenhooker

Frankenhooker is a 1990 American black comedy horror film directed by Frank Henenlotter.

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Guy Maddin

Guy Maddin (born February 28, 1956) is a Canadian screenwriter, director, author, cinematographer, and film editor of both features and short films, as well as an installation artist, from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

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HIV/AIDS

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system.

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Incense

Incense is an aromatic biotic material that releases fragrant smoke when burnt.

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Intermedia is an art theory term coined in the mid-1960s by Fluxus artist Dick Higgins to describe the strategies of interdisciplinarity that occur within artworks existing between artistic genres.

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J. Hoberman

James Lewis Hoberman (born March 14, 1949) is an American film critic, journalist, author and academic.

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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis is a documentary film that premiered in the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival.

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John Carradine

John Carradine (born Richmond Reed Carradine; February 5, 1906 – November 27, 1988) was an American actor, considered one of the greatest character actors in American cinema.

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John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter and musician.

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John Waters

John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American filmmaker, writer, actor, and artist. Jack Smith (film director) and John Waters are American LGBT film directors.

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Jonathan Demme

Robert Jonathan Demme (February 22, 1944 – April 26, 2017) was an American filmmaker, whose career directing, producing, and screenwriting spanned more than 30 years and 70 feature films, documentaries, and television productions.

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Ken Jacobs

Ken Jacobs (born May 25, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American experimental filmmaker. Jack Smith (film director) and Ken Jacobs are American experimental filmmakers.

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Kitsch

Kitsch (loanword from German) is a term applied to art and design that is perceived as naïve imitation, overly eccentric, gratuitous or of banal taste.

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Landlord

A landlord is the owner of a house, apartment, condominium, land, or real estate which is rented or leased to an individual or business, who is called a tenant (also a lessee or renter).

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Lobster

Lobsters are malacostracans of the family Nephropidae (synonym Homaridae).

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Ludlow Street (Manhattan)

Ludlow Street runs between Houston and Division streets on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City.

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Maria Montez

María África Gracia Vidal (6 June 1912 – 7 September 1951), known professionally as Maria Montez, was a Dominican actress who gained fame and popularity in the 1940s starring in a series of filmed-in-Technicolor costume adventure films.

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Mario Montez

René Rivera, (July 20, 1935 – September 26, 2013), known professionally as Mario Montez, was one of the Warhol superstars, appearing in thirteen of Andy Warhol's underground films from 1964 to 1966.

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Mary Jordan (filmmaker)

Mary Jordan is a Canadian-American filmmaker and activist.

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Mary Woronov

Mary Woronov (born December 8, 1943) is an American actress, writer, and figurative painter.

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MIT Press

The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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MoMA PS1

MoMA PS1 is a contemporary art institution located in Court Square in the Long Island City neighborhood in the borough of Queens, New York City, United States.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Surrogate's Court

The Surrogate's Court of the State of New York handles all probate and estate proceedings in the New York State Unified Court System.

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No-budget film

A no-budget film is a film made with very little or no money.

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Normal Love

Normal Love is an experimental film project by American director Jack Smith.

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North Africa

North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.

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Ondine (actor)

Robert Olivo (June 16, 1937 – August 28, 1989), better known by his stage name Ondine, was an American actor. Jack Smith (film director) and Ondine (actor) are AIDS-related deaths in New York (state).

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Orientalism

In art history, literature and cultural studies, orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world (or "Orient") by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world.

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Patrick O'Neal (actor)

Patrick Wisdom O'Neal (September 26, 1927 – September 9, 1994) was an American actor and restaurateur.

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Penny Arcade (performer)

Penny Arcade (born Susana Carmen Ventura, July 15, 1950) is an American performance artist, actress, and playwright based in New York City.

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Performance art

Performance art is an artwork or art exhibition created through actions executed by the artist or other participants.

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Philosophy

Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.

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Photographer

A photographer (the Greek φῶς (phos), meaning "light", and γραφή (graphê), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who uses a camera to make photographs.

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Poster

A poster is a large sheet that is placed either on a public space to promote something or on a wall as decoration.

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Richard Foreman

Richard Foreman (born June 10, 1937 in New York City) is an American avant-garde playwright and the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater.

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Robert Wilson (director)

Robert Wilson (born October 4, 1941) is an American experimental theater stage director and playwright who has been described by The New York Times as "'s – or even the world's – foremost vanguard 'theater artist. Jack Smith (film director) and Robert Wilson (director) are LGBT people from Texas.

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Ron Rice

Ron Rice (born Charles Ronald Rice; 1935 in New York City – 1964 in Acapulco, Mexico) was an American experimental filmmaker, whose free-form style influenced experimental filmmakers in New York and California during the early 1960s. Jack Smith (film director) and Ron Rice are American experimental filmmakers.

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Ron Vawter

Ron Vawter (December 9, 1948 – April 16, 1994) was an American actor and a founding member of the experimental theater company The Wooster Group.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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Semiotext(e)

Semiotext(e) is an independent publisher of critical theory, fiction, philosophy, art criticism, activist texts and non-fiction.

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Silent Night, Bloody Night

Silent Night, Bloody Night is a 1972 American slasher film directed by Theodore Gershuny and co-produced by Lloyd Kaufman.

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Slide projector

A slide projector is an optical device for projecting enlarged images of photographic slides onto a screen.

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Steven Watson (born 1947) is an author, art and cultural historian, curator, and documentary filmmaker.

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Strom Thurmond

James Strom Thurmond Sr. (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American politician who represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 to 2003.

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Sylvère Lotringer

Sylvère Lotringer (15 October 1938 – 8 November 2021) was a French-born literary critic and cultural theorist.

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Tally Brown

Tally Brown (August 1, 1924 – May 6, 1989) was an American singer and actress who was part of the New York underground performance scene, particularly Andy Warhol's "Factory" and who appeared in or was the subject of films by Andy Warhol and Rosa von Praunheim.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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The Brooklyn Rail

The Brooklyn Rail is a publication and platform for the arts, culture, humanities, and politics.

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The Little White Cloud That Cried (film)

The Little White Cloud That Cried is a German-Canadian experimental short film, directed by Guy Maddin and released in 2009.

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The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man

The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man is a 1963 American experimental film directed by Ron Rice.

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The Times Square Show

The Times Square Show was an influential collaborative, self-curated, and self-generated art exhibition held by New York artists' group Colab (aka Collaborative Projects, Inc) in Times Square in a shuttered massage parlor at 201 W. 41st and 7th Avenue during the entire month of June in 1980.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Smith_(film_director)

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