Chuck Smith (filmmaker) explained

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]

Notes and References

1. News: Smith . Roberta . A New Vision of a Visionary Fisherman (Published 2012) . 9 March 2021 . The New York Times . 22 March 2012.
2. News: Kenny . Glenn . 'Barbara Rubin' Review: An Overlooked Filmmaker Gets Her Due (Published 2019) . 9 March 2021 . The New York Times . 23 May 2019.
3. Web site: Wilner . Norman . Hot Docs review: Barbara Rubin And The Exploding NY Underground . NOW Magazine . 9 March 2021 . 20 April 2018.
4. Web site: Barbara Rubin & The Exploding NY Underground . DOC NYC . 9 March 2021.
5. Web site: Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle – powerHouse Books . 2014-11-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141129034303/http://www.powerhousebooks.com/?p=15614 . 2014-11-29 .
6. Web site: Mama was a Flamin' Creature – Film Culture 80:The Legend of Barbara Rubini . desistfilm . 9 March 2021 . 7 August 2019.