Harry Smith Movies

  • 1968
    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

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    An epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s.

    Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

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    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

    Birth of a Nation
  • 2007
    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

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    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...

    365 Day Project
  • 1962
    Heaven and Earth Magic

    Heaven and Earth Magic

    Heaven and Earth Magic

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    The first part depicts the heroine's toothache consequent to the loss of a very valuable watermelon, her dentistry and transportation to heaven. Next...

    Heaven and Earth Magic
  • 1965
    Andy Warhol Screen Tests

    Andy Warhol Screen Tests

    Andy Warhol Screen Tests

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    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,...

    Andy Warhol Screen Tests
  • 1965
    Chinese Checkers

    Chinese Checkers

    Chinese Checkers

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    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...

    Chinese Checkers
  • 1965
    Early Abstractions

    Early Abstractions

    Early Abstractions

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    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...

    Early Abstractions
  • 1965
    No. 14: Late Superimpositions

    No. 14: Late Superimpositions

    No. 14: Late Superimpositions

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    “Superimposed photographs of Mr. Fleischman’s butcher shop in New York, and the Kiowa around Anadarko, Oklahoma–with Cognate...

    No. 14: Late Superimpositions
  • 1967
    No. 16: Oz: The Tin Woodman's Dream

    No. 16: Oz: The Tin Woodman's Dream

    No. 16: Oz: The Tin Woodman's Dream

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    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...

    No. 16: Oz: The Tin Woodman's Dream
  • 1947
    No. 3: Interwoven

    No. 3: Interwoven

    No. 3: Interwoven

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    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...

    No. 3: Interwoven
  • 1951
    No. 7: Color Study

    No. 7: Color Study

    No. 7: Color Study

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    16 mm, color, silent, 5:25 or 15 min. "Optically printed Pythagoreanism in four movements supported on squares, circles, grillwork, and triangles...

    No. 7: Color Study
  • 1956
    No. 11: Mirror Animations

    No. 11: Mirror Animations

    No. 11: Mirror Animations

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    Cut up animation and collage technique by Harry Smith synchronized to the jazz of Thelonious Monk's Mysterioso.

    No. 11: Mirror Animations
  • 1939
    No. 1: A Strange Dream

    No. 1: A Strange Dream

    No. 1: A Strange Dream

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    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...

    No. 1: A Strange Dream
  • 1947
    No. 4: Fast Track

    No. 4: Fast Track

    No. 4: Fast Track

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    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...

    No. 4: Fast Track
  • 1949
    No. 5: Circular Tensions (Homage to Oskar Fischinger)

    No. 5: Circular Tensions (Homage to Oskar Fischinger)

    No. 5: Circular Tensions (Homage to Oskar Fischinger)

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    Experimental short. 16 mm, color, silent, 2:30 or 6 min. Sequel to No. 4.

    No. 5: Circular Tensions (Homage to Oskar Fischinger)
  • 1964
    Screen Test: Harry Smith

    Screen Test: Harry Smith

    Screen Test: Harry Smith

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    Harry Smith’s screen test by Andy Warhol.

    Screen Test: Harry Smith
  • 1980
    No. 18: Mahagonny

    No. 18: Mahagonny

    No. 18: Mahagonny

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    Harry Smith’s final film; an epic four-screen projection. Smith worked on this cinematic transformation of Kurt Weill and Bertolt...

    No. 18: Mahagonny
  • 1947
    No. 2: Message From the Sun

    No. 2: Message From the Sun

    No. 2: Message From the Sun

    5.81947HD

    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...

    No. 2: Message From the Sun
  • 1956
    No. 10

    No. 10

    No. 10

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    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...

    No. 10
  • 2017
    Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel

    Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel

    Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel

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    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...

    Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel