Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

Famously difficult experimental filmmaker Jack Smith has finally found a champion worthy of his extraordinary legacy; director Mary Jordan sorts through extensive material and gathers a “who’s who” of collaborators and disciples, offering an insightful portrait of a self-destructive paranoid artist, whose name is all but forgotten. An anti-capitalist and a true utopian believer, his bacchanalian creations stood at the forefront of the American avant-garde movement, although he ended up dying destitute and alone, surrounded by the ghosts of his beloved “Flaming Creatures”.