“I’M HARRY SMITH, AND I HATE YOU!”

Harry Smith :Still from Film #18: Mahagonny

Kevin Arrow interviews Jonas Mekas about Harry Smith for THE MIAMI RAIL

Stories surrounding Harry Smith (1923–1991) are the stuff of legend. He was a painter, filmmaker, anthropologist, ethno-musicologist, archivist, and alchemist ordained a Bishop in the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica once helmed by occult “magus” Aleister Crowley. He was also a slight, disheveled, cantankerous genius with poor eyesight and a relationship with ceremonial magick, painting, avant garde filmmaking, alcohol, marijuana, speed, and esoteric books.

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THE MIAMI RAIL article: “I’M HARRY SMITH, AND I HATE YOU”

Harry Smith’s Film #18: Mahagonny