Film description

Along with hundreds of slides and scores of scripts, Jack Smith left a number of super8 camera rolls. One of these features a particularly striking appearance by the Lobster in full regalia. Another half dozen rolls, seemingly from the same project, appear to have been shot by Smith himself in the Plaster Foundation. Two later rolls, including Putting Litter in Pool (1977), present the artist performing on the Mall in Washington DC at the time of the National Gallery’s enormously popular Tutankhamen exhibit.

J. Hoberman / Live Film! Jack Smith!