Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis is a documentary film that premiered in the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival.
It is a collection of interviews and clips by and about the revolutionary artist Jack Smith.
It was directed by Mary Jordan and produced by Tongue Press Productions.
The film was given a limited release in New York movie theaters beginning on April 11, 2007.
Jordan is a Canadian- born filmmaker known for her documentary shorts resulting from extended visits to Africa and Southeast Asia.
David Ebony, whose review of the film appeared in" Art in America", had met Smith in the late 70s soon after moving to New York and at that time" attempted to assist him with a number of' slide- show performances.'"
Ebony's review, following the documentary, covers some of the difficult exhibition history of" Flaming Creatures"( 1963), Smith's best known film, and difficult collaborations with Jonas Mekas and Andy Warhol and others.
Voiceovers from Smith, culled from some 14 hours of interviews with various critics and friends, supplemented the archival visual materials, footage and extensive interviews with filmmaker John Waters, Smith's sister Mary Sue Slater, playwright Richard Foreman, Smith and Warhol star Mario Montez, writer Gary Indiana, and musician John Zorn, among others.
Ebony concludes that the film" manages to evoke the quirky and often cantankerous personality of its subject without ever making him seem merely a disgruntled artist and social misfit, as some may think him.
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I feel that Jordan's multifaceted and impassioned portrait rings true.
Smith, in fact, comes off in the film as an ingenious art- world Cassandra, more relevant today than ever."
Wesley Morris, whose review appeared in the" Boston Globe", was impressed that Jordan" manages to conjure Smith's story while also telling a story about art in America", concluding that Smith was" a pioneer of the sort of event that just does n't seem possible in an age when counterculture feels like mass culture and very little art is shocking".
Il Bisbetico Domato
Il Bisbetico Domato(" The Taming of the Scoundrel") is a 1980 Italian film directed by Franco Castellano and Giuseppe Moccia, credited as Castellano& Pipolo.
It was the top grossing film in Italian market for the season 1980/ 1981, earning about 17 billion of lire.
The plot is loosely inspired by William Shakespeare's" The Taming of the Shrew".
The closing theme song" Innamorata, Incavolata A Vita" performed by Adriano Celentano was a minor hit, ranking 18 and staying on the Italian singles chart for 16 weeks.
Kate - la bisbetica domata
Kate- the Taming of the Shrew[" Kate – La bisbetica domata"] is a 2004 stop-motion- musical adaptation film of Shakespeare's" The Taming of the Shrew", directed by Roberto Lione.
The film, which uses a stop motion animation based on paper cut -out figures that Lione called" papermotion", claims to be Italy's first feature- length stop- motion animation film.
Jules White
Jules White( born Julius Weiss; 17 September 190030 April 1985) was a Hungarian- born American film director and producer best known for his short- subject comedies starring The Three Stooges.
The Taming of the Snood
The Taming of the Snood is a 1940 film directed by Jules White.
It is the fifth short subject starring Buster Keaton made for Columbia Pictures.
The Taming of the West (1925 film)
The Taming of the West is a lost 1925 silent film western directed by Arthur Rosson and starring top cowboy star Hoot Gibson.
Luigi Gervasi
Luigi Gervasi was an Italian set decorator.
He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film" The Taming of the Shrew".
Frivolous Wife
Frivolous Wife is a 2008 South Korean romantic comedy film based on William Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew".
Mary Jordan (filmmaker)
Mary Jordan( born August 14, 1969) is an award- winning filmmaker, artist, activist and social justice advocate based in New York City.
She grew up in the Bronx and in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
She studied literature, cultural and social anthropology and art.
She has lived in Australia, India, Thailand and Burma and traveled in more than 50 countries.
At the age of 18, after a trip through North Africa, she made her first documentary film, a work about female circumcision.
Jordan was especially interested in rites of passage and in matriarchal and polygamous societies, like in Papua New Guinea.
At the age of 20 she was the producer of Canadian directors like Steve Chase and Marco Brambilla.
In Sydney, Australia she founded the production firm Indigo Blue for music videos and commercials.
Since 2005 she is mainly living and working in New York.
In 2005 she had already been acclaimed by the magazine filmmaker as one of the 25" new faces of independent film- making".
The same year, in the Old Chelsea Y.M.C.A. in New York she held an exhibition about Jack Smith, including films, photographs and radio- broadcasts of his as well as interviews with his friends.
In New York she set up a performance art troupe called Parthenogenesis who performed in venues from CBGB's, the Box, Canal Room and to many underground theatres and lofts.
She directed 42 different performances with the troupe.
Mary Jordan is the Founder and Creative Director of Word Above the Street, a not- for- profit established in 2010.
Leveraging the transformational power of art and technology, Word Above the Street pioneers fresh methods of communication to produce visionary art exhibitions that capture the imagination, stir the conscience, and have the power to change the world.
While working on an ethnographic film about the Hammer people in Ethiopia, Jordan became acutely aware of the extreme challenges that the population faced in accessing clean water.
Galvanized by this experience, Jordan was determined to create an awareness campaign around the issue of water scarcity.
The Water Tank Project is Mary Jordan ’s current venture and Word Above the Street's inaugural project.
In the summer of 2014, carefully selected rooftop tanks across New York City will be temporarily wrapped with original artwork on the subject of water.
This production will redefine the skyline across all five boroughs and affect millions of people around the world.
Jordan spoke at the Festival of Ideas for the New City in 2011, where she presented The Water Tank Project, and at PolicyLink Equity Summit 2011 in Detroit, where she was a guest speaker.
She is also developing a curriculum for the Earth Institute at Columbia University on art and advocacy.
Jordan spoke on The Water Tank Project and the intersection of art and advocacy at the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia conference at the Venice Architecture Biennale on October 3, 2012.
In September 2013 Jordan spoke at the Social Good Summit along with Al Gore, Melinda Gates and other.
She inspired the crowd with a speech on water that had the audience chanting" put water above all" Jordan has become a speaker for water and sustainability and has spoken at educational institutions such as NYU, Columbia University and the New School.
Giuseppe Mariani
Giuseppe Mariani was an Italian art director.
He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film" The Taming of the Shrew".

Question: Which film has the director who was born first, The Taming Of The Snood or Jack Smith And The Destruction Of Atlantis?
Answer: The Taming Of The Snood