Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith
2017-01-26 | 88 minutes
Plot Summary
In his essay film, Jerry Tartaglia, longtime archivist and restorer of the film estate of queer New York underground, experimental film, and performance legend Jack Smith, deals less with Smith’s life than with his work, analyzing Smith’s aesthetic idiosyncrasies in 21 thematic chapters. It's a film essay about the artist’s work, rather than a documentary about his life. An unmediated vision of Jack Smith, an invitation to join him in his lost paradise.
Cast
Recommendations
Similar Movies
-
We Are Perfect
-
The Bigmoon Nights
-
Ten Minutes of Silence
-
Pollinator
-
3 Dreams of Horses
-
Coast of Death
-
Flower Bed
-
EXPRMNTL
-
Blow Job
-
The Mind and the Crime
-
Rodez
-
Monument
-
The Five Obstructions
-
Decasia: The State of Decay
-
ACT
-
Fragments 83
-
Man with a Movie Camera
-
Šturm und drunk
-
Maya Deren, Take Zero
-
365 Day Project