Harry Smith Movies
- 2013
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches7.42013HD
An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.
- 1962
Heaven and Earth Magic
Heaven and Earth Magic5.71962HD
The first part depicts the heroine's toothache consequent to the loss of a very valuable watermelon, her dentistry and transportation to heaven. Next...
- 1997
Birth of a Nation
Birth of a Nation6.31997HD
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
- 2007
365 Day Project
365 Day Project02007HD
This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007...
- 1965
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Andy Warhol Screen Tests81965HD
The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light,...
- 1965
Early Abstractions
Early Abstractions6.21965HD
Early Abstractions is a collection of seven short animated films created by Harry Everett Smith between 1939 and 1956. Each film is between two and...
- 1947
No. 3: Interwoven
No. 3: Interwoven5.7141947HD
Hand-painted 35 mm stock photographed in 16 mm, color, 3:20 or 10 min. Reportedly cut down from about 30 min. Initially intended to be screened with...
- 1967
No. 16: Oz: The Tin Woodman's Dream
No. 16: Oz: The Tin Woodman's Dream51967HD
The Tin Woodman, framed by light bulbs, does a little dance, leaps and retrieves his axe from outside the frame, chops down a tree that turns into...
- 1949
No. 5: Circular Tensions (Homage to Oskar Fischinger)
No. 5: Circular Tensions (Homage to Oskar Fischinger)5.3571949HD
Experimental short. 16 mm, color, silent, 2:30 or 6 min. Sequel to No. 4.
- 1980
No. 18: Mahagonny
No. 18: Mahagonny5.51980HD
Harry Smith’s final film; an epic four-screen projection. Smith worked on this cinematic transformation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt...
- 1956
No. 11: Mirror Animations
No. 11: Mirror Animations5.8241956HD
Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso.
- 1947
No. 2: Message From the Sun
No. 2: Message From the Sun5.7331947HD
Hand-painted 35 mm stock photographed in 16 mm, color, 2:15 or 10 min. Initially intended to be screened with and synchronized to Dizzy Gillespie's...
- 1965
No. 14: Late Superimpositions
No. 14: Late Superimpositions5.91965HD
“Superimposed photographs of Mr. Fleischman’s butcher shop in New York, and the Kiowa around Anadarko, Oklahoma–with Cognate...
- 1951
No. 7: Color Study
No. 7: Color Study5.3081951HD
16 mm, color, silent, 5:25 or 15 min. "Optically printed Pythagoreanism in four movements supported on squares, circles, grillwork, and triangles...
- 1947
No. 4: Fast Track
No. 4: Fast Track5.2141947HD
16 mm, black & white and color, 2:16 or 6 min. Silent though possibly intended to be screened with Dizzy Gillespie's Manteca. The film starts...
- 1965
Chinese Checkers
Chinese Checkers4.11965HD
His Oriental predator is at first clothed in black, her 'victim' in white; slowly the costumes change, the victim acquiring a veil of mourning, until...
- 1939
No. 1: A Strange Dream
No. 1: A Strange Dream5.8751939HD
Hand-painted 35 mm stock photographed in 16 mm, color, silent, 2:20 or 5 min. Initially intended to be screened with and synchronized to Dizzy...
- 1956
No. 10
No. 105.8331956HD
16 mm, color, 3:35 or 10 min. Study for No. 11. "An exposition of Buddhism and the Kaballah in the form of a collage. The final scene shows Agaric...
- 2017
Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel
Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel42017HD
The 94-year-old Robert Frank’s unique recordings of his fellow artists Harry Smith and Allen Ginsberg, which he had salvaged from his own...
- 1962
No. 13: Oz
No. 13: Oz51962HD
Unfinished commercial adaptation of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz which was shelved after Smith's close friend, the executive producer...