Year			2007
Genre			Documentary
Length			1:34
Director			Mary Jordan
Writer			Mary Jordan
Company			Sundance Channel
Starring			Jack Smith Nayland Blake Ira Cohen Tony Conrad Richard Foreman Ivan Galietti Show more... Jack Smith Nayland Blake Ira Cohen Tony Conrad Richard Foreman Ivan Galietti Helen Gee Robert Heide Henry Hills Gary Indiana Ken Jacobs Mike Kelley George Kuchar Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt Sylvere Lotringer Agosto Machado Judith Malina John Matturri Taylor Mead Jonas Mekas Mario Montez Billy Name William Niederkorn Uzi Parnes Lawrence Rinder Ari M. Roussimoff Andrew Sarris Mary Sue Slater Abbe Stubbenhaus Jerry Tartaglia Ronald Tavel Ela Troyano John Vaccaro Andy Warhol John Waters Robert Wilson Holly Woodlawn Mary Woronov Nick Zedd John Zorn
Links			Official Web Site

For Jack Smith (1932-1989), Atlantis was both the idea of a fantastical utopia and the reality of the Lower East Side apartment in which this prophetic artist staged baroque, improvisational multi-hour one-man theatrical productions, often with a cast of stuffed animals and dolls. An avant-garde photographer, filmmaker, actor, performance artist, and all around "flaming creature," Smith has been credited as a major influence by Fellini, Godard and Jarmusch. In Mary Jordan's mesmerizing portrait, he fairly jumps off the screen: a combination mystic, comedian and madman, a protean artist whose vast energy and creativity were undermined (or perversely fed?) by the poverty of his day-to-day life and his paranoid misgivings about just about everything. If there is a heaven for the wonderfully bizarre, Jack Smith resides there, accompanied by his patron saint, Maria Montez.