Harris Smith (born May 8, 1977) is an American

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, media critic and essayist from

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. He is one of the founding members of the

Remodernist film Remodernist film developed in the United States and the United Kingdom in the early 21st century with ideas related to those of the international art movement Stuckism and its manifesto, Remodernism. Key figures are Jesse Richards and Peter R ...

movement and was a participating member of the first comprehensive Remodernist exhibition in the

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, ''Addressing the Shadow and Making Friends with Wild Dogs: Remodernism''.

Life and work

Smith was born in

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, and moved to New York City in 1995. In 2004, he co-founded the "Remodernist" film movement with

Jesse Richards Jesse Beau Richards (born July 17, 1975) is a painter, filmmaker and photographer from New Haven, Connecticut and was affiliated with the international movement Stuckism. He has been described as "one of the most provocative names in American un ...

, with the aim of promoting a "new spirituality in cinema". Also in 2004, Smith contributed to the book ''Captured: A Film and Video History of the Lower East Side'', edited by Clayton Patterson and published by

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. The book documented the No Wave Cinema movement of the 1970s. Since 2010, Smith has been the host of the radio program "Negative Pleasure" on Newtown Radio. His directing credits include the punk films ''Youngblood'' (1995), featuring music and poetry by

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; ''Modern Young Man'' (1999), which starred Tom Jarmusch,

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and William "Bill" Rice; ''You Can't See Me When I Hide'' (2003); and ''I Can't Look at You'' (2004). In February 2010, the Australian film magazine

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announced Smith's participation in a compilation feature film by the

movement. The film is scheduled to premiere in New York in December 2010.Cara Nas
"Cinema with soul", Filmink, February 25, 2010
Retrieved March 1, 2010 From 2009-2011, Smith taught writing and literature in the humanities department at School of the Visual Arts. From 2011-2017, he worked in the

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industry as a production coordinator at

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. Additionally, he has edited the comics anthologies Jeans, Night Burgers and Felony Comics. Among the cartoonists he has published or collaborated with are Benjamin Marra, Lale Westvind, Zach Hazard Vaupen, Alabaster Pizzo, Leah Wishnia,

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, Alex Degen, Laura Callaghan, Josh Burggraf, Victor Kerlow, Benjamin Urkowitz and many others. His most frequent collaborators are Pete Toms and

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. From 2014-2017, Smith hosted regular film screenings at the

Spectacle Theater Spectacle Theater is a collectively run, independent movie theater that operates out of a small space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in New York City, New York, United States. History Spectacle Theater opened in September 2010 at 124 S. 3rd Street ...

in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Centered on the release of new issues of Felony Comics, these screenings include obscure and odd action, crime and horror movies from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, with an emphasis on the 1980s. Most films shown are low-budget, regional productions. Many are from Mexico. Smith has also contributed to Spectacle's ongoing kung-fu matinee, Fist Church, and their yearly pre-Halloween horror movie marathon.

References

Other sources

The Villager
*Ed. Frank Milner (2004), "The Stuckists Punk Victorian" National Museums Liverpool,

External links

Negative Pleasure on Newtown RadioCaptured: A Film and Video History of the Lower East SideNegative Pleasure/Harris Smith's Official Blog
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Harris American experimental filmmakers Punk filmmakers Living people 1977 births

Life and work

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