Jack Smith ( Eng. Jack Smith ; November 14, 1932 - September 25, 1989 ) - American artist , film director , performer , actor of experimental cinema and theater, pioneer of independent cinema . Most often, the artist is called the father of the American performance , and was also noted by critics as an important artist working with photography, although very few of his photographic works have been preserved and they are little known.
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Content
- 1 Life and career
- 2 Creativity
- 2.1 Smith Books
- 2.2 Filmography
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
- 5 Links
Life and career
Smith grew up in Texas , where in 1952 he directed his first film, Buzzards over Baghdad . The artist moved to New York in 1953 [3] .
The most famous (and perhaps the most scandalous) film made by Smith is the work of Flaming Creatures (1963). It is a parody of a category B Hollywood movie and is also a kind of dedication to actress Maria Montes , who participated in many such films. Authorities regarded some of his scenes as pornography. Copies of the film were seized after the premiere and in fact it was banned (from a technical point of view, work remains unavailable to this day). In addition, she gained notoriety after part of the footage was shown at congressional hearings and mentioned in a speech by right-wing deputy Storm Tormond protesting against pornography.
Smith's next work, Normal Love, became his only almost full-length film (the film lasts 120 minutes), it was attended by many stars of an independent scene, including Mario Montez, Diane di Prima , Tiny Tim , Francis Francine, Beverley Grant, John Vaccaro and others. The rest of his legacy consists mainly of short works, many of which have never been shown in cinemas, but participated in performances and were constantly remade for completely unexpected purposes (including the film Normal Love ).
In addition to his own work, Smith also participated as an actor in other films. He played a role in the unfinished films of Andy Warhol Batman Dracula , with Ken Jacobs in Blonde Cobra , and also participated in several theatrical productions of Robert Wilson .
Smith also worked as a photographer and founded Hyperbole Studios in New York. In 1962, the artist released The Beautiful Book , a book of portraits of artists from New York. The book was reprinted in 2001.
After his last film, No President (1967), Smith worked in the performance genre and experimental theater until his death in September 1989 from pneumonia caused by HIV. [four]
In 1978, Sylvère Lotringer released a thirteen-page interview with Smith, accompanied by photographs, at the publishing house of the Department of Philosophy of Columbia University , which was called Schizo-Culture: The Event, The Book . [5]
Creativity
Smith was one of the creators of the aesthetics, later called camp or thrash , using low-budget film production technologies to create a visual universe that greatly influenced Hollywood, and his film Flaming Creatures created the modern aesthetics of drag culture.
Smith's work has been approached by artists such as Lori Anderson , Cindy Sherman and Mike Kelly , Matthew Barney , photographs Nan Goldin , musicians John Zorn , Lou Reed and theater director Robert Wilson .
Smith Books
- 1960 16 Immortal Photos
- 1962 The Beautiful Book (dead language press, republished 2001 Granary Books)
Filmography
- Jack Smith's directorial work
- 1952: Buzzards Over Baghdad [3]
- 1961: Scotch Tape
- 1963: Flaming Creatures (b / w, 46 min.)
- 1963: Normal Love (120 min.)
- 1967: No President (a / k / a The Kidnapping of Wendell Wilkie by The Love Bandit , ca. 50 min.)
- Acting Jack Smith
- 1960: In Ken Jacobs's Little Stabs at Happiness. [3]
- 1963: In Jacobs's Blonde Cobra
- 1963: In Ron Rice's Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man. [3]
- 1964: In Rice's Chumlum. [3]
- 1965: In Andy Warhol 's Camp (1965 film) | Camp
- 1966: In Warhol's Hedy (a / k / a Hedy the Shoplifter ) starring Mario Montez and Mary Woronov,
- 1974: In Ted Gershunny's Silent Night, Bloody Night starring Mary Woronov, Patrick O'Neal, John Carradine, Candy Darling, Ondine, and [Tally Brown
- 1989: In Ari Roussimoff (Frankenhooker) 's Shadows in the City [3]
- About jack smith
- 2006: Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis Documentary written, directed, and co-produced by Mary Jordan. [3]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 138699739 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 “Film Examines Art-World Provocateur” Archived on June 28, 2007. By David Ebony, Art in America , May '07, p. 47. Retrieved 2-3-09. Includes photos of Smith in pre-production for Flaming Creatures and in Shadows in the City.
- ↑ Penny, Arcade The Last Days and Moments of Jack Smith . Date of appeal September 17, 2013.
- ↑ Sylvère Lotringer & David Morris (Eds), Schizo-Culture: The Event, The Book , Semiotext (e) , 1978, re-published in 2013, pp. 192—203
Literature
- Hoberman, J., On Jack Smith's 'Flaming Creatures' (And Other Secret-Flix of Cinemaroc) , New York: Granary Books, 2001
- J. Hoberman and Leffingwell, Edward (eds.), Wait For Me At The Bottom Of The Pool: The Writings Of Jack Smith , New York and London: High Risk Books and PS1, 1997
- Johnson, Dominic. Glorious Catastrophe: Jack Smith, Performance and Visual Culture, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2012
- Leffingwell, Edward (Kismaric, Edward and Carole & Heiferman, Marvin, eds.) Flaming Creature: Jack Smith, His Amazing Life and Times , London: Serpent's Tail, 1997
- Reisman, D. "In the Grip of the Lobster: Jack Smith Remembered", Millennium Film Journal 23/24, Winter 1990-91.
Links
- Jack Smith (I ) on the Internet Movie Database
- Smith, Jack (Director ) on Find a Grave
- Biography at WarholStars.com
- Flaming Creatures , Normal Love , & Scotch Tape at UbuWeb