Chuck Smith ( New York-based documentary 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  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 J Jonas Mekas and published by Spector Books.    About the Fugs Film ! fugs-film   https://www.instagram.com/chucksmithnyc/ https://www.youtube.com/@chucksmithNYC https://vimeo.com/producerchuck