Jack Smith
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 master photographer.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
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Photo: Ken Jacobs, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
Defining films
Critical context
Artists who choose to pursue counter-paradigmatic work often do so at great personal costs to themselves, their families and associates. In their implacable drive to accomplish their self-appointed mission, some artists are plainly confrontational. They may court opposition and hostility from those within their immediate professional circles or farther afield, from powerful political quarters.
