![]() ![]() ![]() Irreverent in tone and delirious in effect, Smith’s films, such as the notorious Flaming Creatures (1962-3), are both wildly camp and subtly polemical. Working in New York from the 1950s until his death in 1989, Smith unequivocally resisted and upturned accepted conventions, whether artistic, moral or legal. He is generally acclaimed as a founding father of American performance art, and has been critically recognized as a master photographer. Jack Smith was an American filmmaker, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema.
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