Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2007)
In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's performances and films punctuate interviews with artists, critics, friends and foes to create an engaging portrait of the artist. Widely known for his banned queer erotica film Flaming Creatures, Smith was an innovator and firebrand who influenced artists such as Andy Warhol and John Waters.
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Cast
Jack Smith
as Self (archive footage)
Jack Smith was an American filmmaker, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema. He is generally acclaimed as a founding father of American performance art, and has been critically recognized as a mast...
Ira Cohen
as Self
Ira Cohen was an American poet, publisher, photographer and filmmaker. Cohen lived in Morocco and in New York City in the 1960s, he was in Kathmandu in the 1970s and traveled the world in the 1980s, b...
Helen Geets
as Self
Henry Hills
as Self
Henry Hills has made more than 30 experimental films and videos since 1975. He divides his time between New York, Vienna, & Porter Springs, GA. He is Visiting Professor at FAMU, the film academy in Pr...
Gary Indiana
as Self
Gary Indiana is an American writer, actor, artist, and cultural critic. He served as the art critic for the Village Voice weekly newspaper from 1985 to 1988. Indiana is best known for his classic Amer...
Ken Jacobs
as Self
A pioneer of the American film avant-garde of the 1960s and '70s, Ken Jacobs is a central figure in post-war experimental cinema. From his first films of the late 1950s to his recent experiments with...
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Mary Jordan
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