Tony Conrad
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Apr 26, 2006 · Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis: Directed by Mary Jordan. With Jack Smith, Nayland Blake, Ira Cohen, Tony Conrad. A mesmerizing collage of images and audio from the life and work of Jack Smith, the underground filmmaker, photographer, performance artist, and anti-capitalist, who worked in New York from the '60s until his death in 1989.
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- Documentary
- Mary Jordan
- 2006-04-26
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.
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis is a documentary film that premiered in the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival. It is a collection of interviews and clips by and about the revolutionary artist Jack Smith. It was directed by Mary Jordan and produced by Tongue Press Productions.
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis aims an illuminating -- and long overdue -- spotlight on a talented artist and admirable public figure. Interviews with underground...
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- Documentary
- Mariangela Giordano
Apr 11, 2007 · Jordan's interviews, from John Zorn to John Waters, all attest to Smith's reputation as a pivotal influence on film, performance art, gallery installation, and photography; as Richard Foreman once declared, everybody stole from Jack.
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- Mary Jordan
- Not Rated
- Jack Smith
Apr 24, 2007 · April 24, 2007 9:00pm. Tongue Press. NEW YORK — An important and unjustly neglected figure of avant-garde cinema gets chronicled in Mary Jordan’s absorbing documentary, which recently...
Brief Synopsis. 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.
