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8 de sept. de 2008 · Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis. Perhaps America’s most important artist from the last fifty years, Jack Smith is simultaneously hailed as the godfather of performance art, a groundbreaking photographer and the ‘William Blake of film’. His utopian ideals, artistic processes and bejeweled artworks left no generation untouched ...
14 de may. de 2020 · Directed by Mary Jordan, 2006
11 de abr. de 2007 · In Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis, Jordan has created a flowing, moving documentary that comes together in a way that would make Jack proud, if that were at all possible. 'Jack Smith ...
24 de abr. de 2007 · Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis. ... Smith, who died in 1989 of AIDS, was a fascinating flaming creature, living an ultra-bohemian and poverty-stricken lifestyle, ...
Jack Smith is an icon of the theatrical avant-garde of the 1960s, a pioneer of the New American Cinema, and a founding figure in the development of performance art. This article draws together some thoughts on Smith's practice by focusing on the figures of the ‘exotic’ and ‘apocalypse’, considered in relation to catastrophe, the uncanny, spatiality, laughter, and the hoax.
At three hours and change, boasting two rowdy full-length features, a slew of garish fake coming attractions, and steady eruptions of carnage and cruelty, the Quentin Tarantino–Robert Rodriguez ...
Decades later, Warhol is an icon of popular culture, Jack Smith is all but forgotten, and avant-garde cinema struggles to find an audience, no less an entourage. However, a new documentary by Mary Jordan, Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis, may finally rescue Smith from obscurity and make his work — including the notorious but rarely ...
