Jack Smith: A Feast for Open Eyes

A screening of Jack Smith’s best-known film Flaming Creatures, which was banned at the time of its release, is introduced by Chris Dercon and followed by Jonas Mekas in conversation with Dominic Johnson.

Jack Smith’s Normal Love is screened with a live soundtrack composed and performed by the band Ectopia - filmmaker and performance artist Adam Christensen with Jack Brennan and Vicky Steiri - commissioned by the ICA.

A symposium exploring legacy of Jack Smith, including presentations by British filmmaker Anna Thew on Smith's influence on UK filmmaking.

British artist filmmaker Anna La Thew presents films inspired by and in the spirit of Jack Smith.

A performance by Penny Arcade, a New York-based performance artist and close friend of Jack Smith.

Jack Smith’s slides of performance documentation are accompanied by music selected by long-term collaborator, John Zorn.

Nothing short of notorious, Flaming Creatures (1963, 45 min) marked a significant moment in the history of postwar American film and culture.

This dark and menacing low-budget feature film explores the more sinister side of sexuality, where the banalities of conversation between an uncle and his nephew are thrown into the realms of the unconventional.

Drawing upon the legacy of queer performance in the UK as well as the ICA’s influential role in this history, Dominic Johnson and Live Art Development Agency’s Lois Keidan present a programme of performance documentation by British artists inspired and influenced by Jack Smith.

Filmmaker and former music video director Mary Jordan’s fascinating portrait features Smith’s rare and unseen films and photographs along with audio recordings, acting appearances, and other relics squeezed from Smith’s vaulted archive. If you can't make it to our cinema screenings of this documentary, pick up a copy of the DVD.

Everything returns to celebrate its first birthday in conjunction with 'Jack Smith: A Feast For Open Eyes'.

From one of the seminal theatrical events of the 90s—Ron Vawter's stunning performance piece Roy Cohn/Jack Smith—Jill Godmilow has crafted a dramatically deft, comic and terrifying film diptych of queer-on-queer.

Three legendary underground movies featuring Jack Smith.

Smith's third feature film was originally titled The Kidnapping of Wendell Willkie by the Love Bandit in reaction to the 1968 Presidential Campaign.

Smith's second feature length film derives from his adoration of Maria Montez, the B- movie star best know for her performance in Cobra Woman.

A selection of recently restored rare short films by Jack Smith screened on 16mm.

A selection of recent commissioned films from the recent Jack Smith exhibition at Barbara Gladstone Gallery in New York and the Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art and Hebbel-am-Ufer (HAU) Theatre series Live Film! Jack Smith! in Berlin.