Patti Smith Movies

Soundwalk Collective with Patti Smith

"Horses: Patti Smith and Her Band" is a concert-documentary film directed by Steven Sebring, released in 2018, which premiered at the Tribeca Film...

Part of "The Women in Music" series

Benjamin Smoke is the highly acclaimed documentary by directors Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen on legendary underground musician Benjamin Smoke. Benjamin...

This intimate documentary chronicles the extraordinary life of Izzy Young, a pivotal Jewish figure in the folk music revival of 1960s New York City....

This is a video record of the Buddhist Wake ceremony at Allen Ginsberg's apartment. You see Allen, now asleep forever, in his bed; some of his close...

At the age of 20, Patti Smith arrives in New York and upsets the codes of rock, poetry, and genre. She has become a living legend without ever...

Crump directed the feature-length documentary film Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff + Robert Mapplethorpe, which premiered in North...

An associative collection of visual impressions across fifteen chapters: a seagull in Porto, political posters in New York, an abstract painting in...

Rock My Religion is a provocative thesis on the relation between religion and rock music in contemporary culture. Graham formulates a history that...

Patti Smith was one of the key artists in the breakthrough of New York City punk rock with her 1975 album "Horses" being hugely influential on the...

Concert film and interview from Patti Smith Group's 1976 visit to Stockholm shot for Swedish television.

Robert Mapplethorpe gets his nipple pierced while his boyfriend lends his support in person. Patti Smith lends her support via voice over as she...

An homage to Walter Benjamin and other time-traveling artists and expatriates that have inspired me, especially Chris Marker. Benjamin, fleeing from...

This is a look into the darkest corners of the BBC’s music archives for a reminder of songs by the likes of The Las, The Mock Turtles, Joan...

A short portrait of Patti Smith in the city where she lives. Patti recites the very first poem-song she ever wrote. We take a walk in her changing...

A pilot for a documentary film capturing life at the Chelsea Hotel in the early 1970s. The film was never finished due to budget issues. 'A...

Music Video Distributors has been releasing the best in punk rock music videos for years. In compiling WHAT THE PUNK?!, the music experts over at MVD...

Patti Smith improvises an unfinished song, called "God Running". Part of the cycle of The First 40.