Henry Hills
Yönetmen · Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Henry Hills has made more than 30 experimental films and videos since 1975. He divides his time between New York, Vienna, & Porter Springs, GA. He is Visiting Professor at FAMU, the film academy in Prague; was a 2009 Guggenheim Fellow; and his work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. SELECTED FILMS 1977-2008 is available on DVD from Tzadik.
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Film6.7BelgeselIn this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's performances and films punctuate interviews with artists, critics, friends and foes to create an engaging portrait of the artist. Widely known for his banned queer erotica film Flaming Creatures, Smith was an innovator and firebrand who influenced artists such as Andy Warhol and John Waters.
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
2007 · 10 votes
Film7.0KomediSuçA ramshackle underground SF satire set and shot in the self-absorbed art world of lower Manhattan, written, produced, and directed by Joe Gibbons, who also plays one of the lead parts. Gibbons plays a mad scientist who's developed a technique for transferring personalities from one person's body to another; he becomes obsessed with an outlaw artist (played by performance artist Karen Finley) who destroys paintings in various galleries as a form of anarchist, anticapitalist protest.
The Genius
1993 · 2 votes