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.
Jerry Tartaglia
Director
Jack Smith
Himself (archive footage)
Mario Montez
Himself (archive footage)
Beverly Grant
Herself (archive footage)
Tony Conrad
Himself (archive footage)
Agosto Machado
Himself (archive footage)
Francis Francine
Himself (archive footage)
Irving Rosenthal
Himself (archive footage)
Tally Brown
Herself (archive footage)
Mary Waronor
Herself (archive footage)
Harmontown66%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
Welcome to Chechnya69%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
Looking for Richard68%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Public Speaking70%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
McQueen74%
28 Up75%
Sherman's March67%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
The Captains63%
180° South72%
Elstree 197661%
Adele One Night Only78%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Fuck64%
Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home67%
