Judith Malina,
Taylor Mead,
Mario Montez,
Holly Woodlawn,
Gary Indiana
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The underground art of renegade performance artist, photographer, and filmmaker Jack Smith is explored through the images he created and the words of those who knew him best in filmmaker Mary Jordan's... read more
DVD Release Date: May 25, 2010
Stats: 40 reviews
Interesting doc on experimental filmmaker Jack Smith. It does make me want to see some of his work... but I don't think I'd have him over for Xmas dinner though.
This invaluable record contains a treasure trove of clips from Smith's hard-to-see and still striking films, plus comments that were culled from hours of interviews with this flamboyant pioneer. Full Review
There is invaluable material here, but also a lack of context for the wonderfully outre footage. Full Review
An intriguing, and profoundly frustrating, view of the New York underground hero. Full Review
The intoxicating documentary Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis, directed by Mary Jordan, is a love poem to the New York City of the '50s and '60s, when Smith, the visionary of camp, more or l... Full Review
It's gratifying when an influential underground artist is profiled in an accessible documentary. For that reason alone, Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis is worth seeing.
In some ways Smith's art became commodified only after he died and his estranged sister gained control over his work, though that did lead to this documentary, a fascinating introduction to his specia... Full Review
Helmer Mary Jordan does an extraordinary job sorting through extensive material and gathering a who's who of collaborators and disciples, offering an insightful and incisive portrait of a self-destruc... Full Review
Smith's own work, here montaged for easy digestion, is already too rich and sumptuous to require any further frosting. Full Review
In Jordan's documentary you see the roots of camp as distinctly melancholy and yearning, a world of the spirit that can never be made flesh. Full Review
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