10/10/2023 0 Comments Jack smith film![]() ![]() Jordan's film details the story behind the Supreme Court case over the banning of Smith's 1963 underground classic Flaming Creatures. ![]() Replete with an assemblage of photographs, film clips, and audio recordings of Smith's own voice, this signature work resurrects the seminal importance of Smith to the entire development of the 1960's New York underground scene. In Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis, filmmaker and former music video director Mary Jordan creates a mesmerizing portrait of this avant-garde pioneer. Underground filmmaker, photographer, actor, performance artist, Lower East Side fixture, homosexual, and anticapitalist Jack Smith was a central figure of New York underground culture from the 1960's until his death in 1989.
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