Chuck Smith (filmmaker)

Chuck Smith is a New York-based documentary filmmaker, television producer and author.

He created a 48-minute film Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle in 1999 about the artist Forrest Bess.[1] It featured Willem Dafoe as the voice of Bess and was co-directed by Ari Marcopoulos.

His 2018 film Barbara Rubin & the Exploding NY Underground was a biographical documentary about the 1960s experimental filmmaker and scene-maker Barbara Rubin.[2][3] The film won the 2018 Metropolis Competition at the DOC NYC film festival.[4]

Smith's publications include a Forrest Bess book that was published by powerHouse Books in 2013 with a Foreword by Robert Thurman,[5] and Film Culture 80: The Legend of Barbara Rubin (2019) co-edited with Jonas Mekas and published by Spector Books.[6]

  1. ^ Smith, Roberta (22 March 2012). "A New Vision of a Visionary Fisherman (Published 2012)". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
  2. ^ Kenny, Glenn (23 May 2019). "'Barbara Rubin' Review: An Overlooked Filmmaker Gets Her Due (Published 2019)". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
  3. ^ Wilner, Norman (20 April 2018). "Hot Docs review: Barbara Rubin And The Exploding NY Underground". NOW Magazine. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
  4. ^ "Barbara Rubin & The Exploding NY Underground". DOC NYC. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
  5. ^ "Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle – powerHouse Books". Archived from the original on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2014-11-19.
  6. ^ "Mama was a Flamin' Creature – Film Culture 80:The Legend of Barbara Rubini". desistfilm. 7 August 2019. Retrieved 9 March 2021.