Harry Smith Movies

  • 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
  • 1970
    Chelsea Hotel

    Chelsea Hotel

    Chelsea Hotel

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    A pilot for a documentary film capturing life at the Chelsea Hotel in the early 1970s. The film was never finished due to budget issues. 'A...

    Chelsea Hotel
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1965
    No. 15: Untitled Animation of Seminole Patchwork Film

    No. 15: Untitled Animation of Seminole Patchwork Film

    No. 15: Untitled Animation of Seminole Patchwork Film

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    16 mm, color, silent, 10 min. Animation of Seminole patchwork.

    No. 15: Untitled Animation of Seminole Patchwork Film
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1979
    No. 17: Mirror Animations

    No. 17: Mirror Animations

    No. 17: Mirror Animations

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    Features Thelonious Monk's Misterioso. Extended version of No. 11 printed forward-backward-forward.

    No. 17: Mirror Animations
  • 1980
    Number 20: Fragments of a Faith Forgotten

    Number 20: Fragments of a Faith Forgotten

    Number 20: Fragments of a Faith Forgotten

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    In 1980, Harry Smith combined his two Wizard of Oz-related films (FILM NO. 16 and 19) and called the new work FILM NO. 20: FRAGMENTS OF A FAITH...

    Number 20: Fragments of a Faith Forgotten
  • 1971
    Ricky Leacock Visit, evening, April 19, 1971

    Ricky Leacock Visit, evening, April 19, 1971

    Ricky Leacock Visit, evening, April 19, 1971

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    April 19 nite of Ricky visit but not of Ricky. 1. Jose Soltero & his assistant Alicia from Argentina. I do teaching, they tape. 2. Harry arrives...

    Ricky Leacock Visit, evening, April 19, 1971
  • 1956
    No. 10: Mirror Animations

    No. 10: Mirror Animations

    No. 10: Mirror Animations

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    Study for Film No. 11: Mirror Animations (1957). Harry Smith described the film as, “An exposition of Buddhism and the Kaballah in the form of...

    No. 10: Mirror Animations
  • 1971
    Ricky Leacock Visit, April 15, 1971

    Ricky Leacock Visit, April 15, 1971

    Ricky Leacock Visit, April 15, 1971

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    Jonas Mekas visit. Harry comes by before Ricky visit. 1. 12 p.m. April 15th -- Jonas dares to come by but won't talk. I tape him not with set up --...

    Ricky Leacock Visit, April 15, 1971