Avant-garde cinema would be nothing without its visionary eccentrics, and Harry Smith (1923–1991) ranks high on both counts. Doubly famous for his Anthology of Folk Music and masterworks of abstract ...
A decade or more in the making, Harry Smith’s epic cut-and-paste animation is alchemical filmmaking of the highest order—an uncanny masterpiece by the mad polymath of American underground culture.
The Whitney Museum of American Art has announced that it will exhibit Pioneering Experimental Filmmaker Harry Smith, the first solo exhibition of artist, filmmaker, collector, and groundbreaking ...
Live Improvised Soundtrack to the Films of Harry Smith and Jordan Belson with Will Epstein featuring Ben Goldberg, Michael Coleman and Jordan Glenn New York Composer and multi-instrumentalist Will ...
Harry Smith, still from "Film No. 11: Mirror Animations" (c. 1957), 16mm film, color, sound, 3:35 min; sound from The Thelonious Monk Quartet, B-side of Misterioso (Blue Note Records, 1949), 78 rpm ...
CAMBRIDGE — There’s a lot going on in “Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith.” Spread over two floors of Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, the show includes films; ...
Algo Bueno [Jazz Painting], c. 1948–49 Lightbox projection from 35mm slide of lost painting Illustration of Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra, Algo Bueno/Ool-Ya-Koo, B-side (RCA Victor 20-3186, 1948), ...