Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

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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. Highlights include the story behind the Supreme Court case over the banning of his 1963 classic Flaming Creatures.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis:

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Nayland Blake
Ira Cohen
Tony Conrad
Richard Foreman
Ivan Galietti

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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. Highlights include the story behind the Supreme Court case over the banning of his 1963 classic Flaming Creatures.

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Entertainment Weekly - 10/10 by Owen GleibermanA love poem to the New York City of the '50s and '60s, when Smith, the visionary of camp (Andy Warhol stole from him), more or less invented performance art.
New York Post - 8/10 by Lou LumenickIn his later years, Smith, who was also a gifted photographer, largely abandoned films in favor of performance art - and his art apparently included deliberately contracting the AIDS that ended his life.
The A.V. Club - 8/10 by Noel MurrayIf modern art-lovers want to understand what the Jack Smith experience was like, Jordan's documentary may be their best chance.
Film Threat - 7/10 by Donald J. LevitEccentric and pure like its hero, Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis will appall or bore many, but, a worthy piece of cultural history, it should delight devotees of the "real" reel underground.
Village Voice - 7/10 by Ed HalterJordan'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.
New York Magazine (Vulture) - 7/10 by David EdelsteinIt's Jordan’s feat to make a linear, talking-heads documentary (among the heads are Jonas Mekas, Robert Wilson, John Waters, Nick Zedd, and John Zorn) that still manages to evoke something of Smith's floating, ravishingly colorful dreamscapes--a menagerie of creatures that, even as they're captured on film, are already fading into the air.
Variety - 7/10 by Jay WeissbergAn insightful and incisive portrait of a self-destructive paranoid artist whose importance is partly hidden by his own divisive nature.
Chicago Reader - 7/10 by Jonathan RosenbaumHe resisted commodification by continuously reediting his other films and reworking his live performances--a dazzling legacy that influenced everyone from Warhol to Fellini to John Waters. 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 special world.
Salon.com - 6/10 by Andrew O'HehirOffers an intriguing, and profoundly frustrating, view of the New York underground hero whose 1962 erotic fantasy "Flaming Creatures" paved the way for Andy Warhol, John Waters, the "queer cinema" explosion and pretty much anybody who's ever made a movie starring his friends in weird Salvation Army outfits.
The New York Times - 5/10 by Matt Zoller SeitzMs. Jordan lets a few subjects contradict the image of Mr. Smith as martyr, but the overall tone is worshipful verging on reductive. You come away impressed by Smith's charisma, versatility and integrity, while also wondering if a man so abrasively self-important could have made such playful art.

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