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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis is a american film of genre Documentary released in USA on 11 april 2007 with Jack Smith

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2007)

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
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Released in USA 11 april 2007
Length 1h34
OriginUSA
Rating72% 3.6467053.6467053.6467053.6467053.646705

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.

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 "[i]n the end ... 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 managed to convey Smith's "unmitigated avant-gardism[,] ... his manias and paranoia, his peculiar genius[,] ... his financial poverty, credibly suggest[ing] his victimization through artistic robbery ... ([t]hat's how Smith felt anyway...)[, and finally,] ... also telling a story about art in America." Morris wrote that "Jordan wrangles the obligatory talking heads, but the things they say are smart, vivid, complex, miffed, and uncensored ...[, including] Judith Malina, Taylor Mead" among the others listed above and more.

Actors

Jack Smith

(Self (archive footage))John Waters

(Self)Tony Conrad

(Self)Jonas Mekas

(Self)John Zorn

(Self)
And :
Ken Jacobs
George Kuchar
Judith Malina
Taylor Mead
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