About Chuck Smith
Chuck Smith was an American documentary filmmaker and film director.
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. 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. The film won the 2018 Metropolis Competition at the DOC NYC film festival.
Smith's publications include a Forrest Bess book that was published by powerHouse Books in 2013 with a Foreword by Robert Thurman, and Film Culture 80: The Legend of Barbara Rubin (2019) co-edited with Jonas Mekas and published by Spector Books.
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