Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis | movie | 2007 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and | dG1fa3BMTlJPa3BiaUE

Transcript

00:00Ladies and gentlemen, the one and only, the inimitable, Jack Smith!

00:09Who's Jack Smith?

00:11He was a great filmmaker who changed everything.

00:13He's an artist's artist.

00:15Me? I'm Ollie Baba.

00:17Jack Smith was the real Warhol.

00:20Jack Smith.

00:21I hope to find protection against the thieves.

00:25It was in the early 60s, and I had to live in squalor.

00:30Still, it is very nice to be let out of the safe every ten years, whenever there's some retrospective program.

00:40Moral decay is spreading through our country and our society.

00:45Flaming Creatures was a legendary film.

00:47It was fantastic.

00:49There was bound to be trouble.

00:50Ambush.

00:51The police came.

00:52Protection against obscenity.

00:54That was banned.

00:55What do you do about the critics?

00:57Whatever is done, they'll bring it down.

00:59Jack was very anti-capitalistic.

01:02All the money that runs the government comes from the fantasy of paying rent.

01:06Atlantis was exotic. Atlantis was his mind.

01:09Atlantis!

01:10You find it is for a lot of lobsters, a symbol for the exploiters.

01:17The orchids were whispering about me.

01:22He is the next to be sacrificed.

01:26I make the stuff for everybody on Earth.