Harry Smith

Harry Everett Smith (29 May 1923, Portland, Oregon – 27 November 1991, New York City) was an American archivist, ethnomusicologist, student of anthropology, record collector, experimental filmmaker, artist, bohemian and mystic. Smith is a well-known figure in several fields. People who know him as a filmmaker often do not know of his 1952 Anthology of American Folk Music, while folk music enthusiasts often do not know he was 'the greatest living magician' according to Kenneth Anger.

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String Figures: The Collections of Harry Smith. Catalogue Raisonné, Volume II
Filmmaker, painter, anthropologist, musicologist and occultist--Harry Smith (1923-1991) was an incomparable polymath and seminal figure in the realms of beat culture and avant-garde art. Smith's kaleidoscopic experimental films have influenced generations of artists and cinephiles, while his landmark three-volume compilation, the Anthology of American Folk Music (1952), laid the foundation for the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s.
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J&L Books
Paper Airplanes: The Collections of Harry Smith. Catalogue Raisonné, Volume I
Filmmaker, painter, anthropologist, musicologist and occultist--Harry Smith (1923-1991) was an incomparable polymath and seminal figure in the realms of beat culture and avant-garde art. Smith's kaleidoscopic experimental films have influenced generations of artists and cinephiles, while his landmark three-volume compilation, the Anthology of American Folk Music (1952), laid the foundation for the folk music revival of the 1950s and 1960s.
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J&L Books
Harry Smith - Heaven and earth magic
One of Smith's most well-known works; this black and white collage film culled from cut-outs from nineteenth-century catalogues, the film traverses the landscape of an hermetic dream.

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DVD
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Olivia Boudreau
Harry Smith - Late superimpositions
Late superimpositions (aka. No. 14, 1964)

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DVD
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Olivia Boudreau
Harry Smith - Early abstractions & mirror animations
Smith's Early Hand-Painted Films
DVD

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Average: 3.3 (3 votes)
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DVD
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Olivia Boudreau
Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986
Treasures IV presents works by 27 filmmakers, from Bruce Baillie to Andy Warhol, who changed cinema in the decades following World War II. The line-up reads like a who\'s who of the avant-garde world and includes films by luminaries such as Stan Brakhage

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Average: 3.2 (5 votes)
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DVD
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National Film Preservation Foundation
Harry Smith - Early Abstractions
Includes a 40 page booklet on Smith's work. Animations and abstractions that reference geological time, Pythagoras, Buddhism, The Kaballa, Oskar Fischinger and fly agarics - all to a soundtrack of the early Beatles.

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Average: 3.6 (22 votes)

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27.00 EUR
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Harry Smith - Early abstractions (1946-57)
Short animations by Harry Smith.
No. 1: A Strange Dream (l946)
No. 2: Message from the Sun (1946-48)
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