Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2007)
April 11, 2007Release Date
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2007)
April 11, 2007Release Date

Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.

Jack Smith
Self (archive footage)

Nayland Blake
Self

Ira Cohen
Self

Tony Conrad
Self

Richard Foreman
Self

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self

Ivan Galietti
Self

Helen Geets
Self

Robert Heide
Self

Henry Hills
Self

Allen Ginsberg
Self

Gary Indiana
Self

Ken Jacobs
Self

George Kuchar
Self

Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt
Self

Sylvere Lotringer
Self

Agosto Machado
Self

Judith Malina
Self

John Matturri
Self

Taylor Mead
Self

Jonas Mekas
Self

Mario Montez
Self

Billy Name
Self

William Niederkorn
Self

Uzi Parnes
Self

Lawrence Rinder
Self

Ari M. Roussimoff
Self

Andrew Sarris
Self

Jerry Tartaglia
Self

Ronald Tavel
Self

Ela Troyano
Self

Andy Warhol
Self (archive footage)

John Waters
Self

Robert Wilson
Self

Holly Woodlawn
Self

Mary Woronov
Self

Nick Zedd
Self

John Zorn
Self

Mary Jordan
Director / Writer / Cinematography / Producer

Kenneth Peralta
Executive Producer

Richard H. Prince
Executive Producer

Alessandra Zeka
Line Producer

Thurston Moore
Music

Ross Morgan
Executive Producer

Stephen Kessler
Executive Producer

Robert Aaron
Music

Jon Fordham
Cinematography

Joel Diamond
Music

Matt Morandi
Music

Richie Nieto
Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Kelly Spivey
Sound Editor

Kenneth Wayne Bradley
Producer

Andrew Sterling
Sound Recordist

Alex Márquez
Editor

J.M. Silverman
Camera Operator

Bill Seery
Sound Editor
Media.


Details.
This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
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 artist Jack Smith. It was directed by Mary Jordan and produced by Tongue Press Productions.
The film was given a limited release in New York movie theaters beginning on April 11, 2007.
Jordan is a Canadian-born filmmaker known for her documentary shorts resulting from extended visits to Africa and Southeast Asia. David Ebony, whose review of the film appeared in Art in America, had met Smith in the late 70s soon after moving to New York and at that time "attempted to assist him with a number of 'slide-show performances.'" Ebony's review, following the documentary, covers some of the difficult exhibition history of Flaming Creatures (1963), Smith's best known film, and difficult collaborations with Jonas Mekas and Andy Warhol and others. Voiceovers from Smith, culled from some 14 hours of interviews with various critics and friends, supplemented the archival visual materials, footage and extensive interviews with filmmaker John Waters, Smith's sister Mary Sue Slater, playwright Richard Foreman, Smith and Warhol star Mario Montez, writer Gary Indiana, and musician John Zorn, among others. Ebony concludes that the film "manages to evoke the quirky and often cantankerous personality of its subject without ever making him seem merely a disgruntled artist and social misfit, as some may think him. ... I feel that Jordan's multifaceted and impassioned portrait rings true. Smith, in fact, comes off in the film as an ingenious art-world Cassandra, more relevant today than ever."
Wesley Morris, whose review appeared in the Boston Globe, was impressed that Jordan "manages to conjure Smith's story while also telling a story about art in America", concluding that Smith was "a pioneer of the sort of event that just doesn't seem possible in an age when counterculture feels like mass culture and very little art is shocking".
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