Magus: Harry Smith (2001–02). Video. Includes clips from Smith's films, drawings, paintings, rare archive footage and interviews with Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Lionel Ziprin, Robert Frank, Jonas Mekas, John Cohen, James Wasserman, M. Henry Jones, Percy Heath, Grateful Dead, Patti Smith, DJ Spooky, Khem Caigan, Harvey Bialy and Rosebud Feliu-Pettet. Mekas, Jonas. Birth of a Nation (1997) 16 mm, color, 85 min. Snippets of 160 underground film people (including Smith) recorded between 1955 and 1996. Lund, Simon (c. 2000, 2002). Restoring Harry Smith's Mahagonny a.k.a. Making of Mahagonny. Short documentary on the restoration of No. 18. Singh, Rani (2002). On Mahagonny. Video. Jonas Mekas and others discuss No. 18. Features conversation between Smith and critic P. Adams Sitney shot by André S. Labarthe in 1971. Singh, Rani (2006). The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music. Video with Beck, Nick Cave, Elvis Costello, Steve Earle, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, Emmylou Harris, Percy Heath, David Johansen, Luis Kemnitzer, Greil Marcus, Bob Neuwirth, Beth Orton, Lou Reed, Hal Willner and others. External links Harry Smith Archives The Celestial MonochordThe Celestial Monochord: Journal of the Institute for Astrophysics and the Hillbilly Blues]. Webzine "Dedicated to Harry Smith's Folkways anthology, early old-time commercial recordings, and the folk music revival." Some Crazy Magic: Meeting Harry Smith. Short film animated by Drew Christie. Based on anecdote by John Cohen (narrator), on Vimeo, reviewed by Levi Fuller, Big Ball of Wax Audio Quarterly, November 24, 2011. "American Magus: Harry Smith: A Modern Alchemist". Khem Caigan, interviewed by Paola Igliori. Excerpt from book, American Magus: Harry Smith: A Modern Alchemist, Paola Igliori, editor, (1996). Doug Harvey, "Dismembering Harry Smith" , L. A. Weekly, May 10, 2001. Tom Paley / Peter Stampfel: "Harry Smith" Tributes" Essays excerpted from new Liner Notes for The Anthology of American Folk Music. Smithsonian Folkways, 1997 CD reissue of Smith's 1952 Folkways Anthology. Rani Singh, "Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: Unearthing the Harry Smith Archives", Animation World Magazine 3 (December, 1998): 9. Biography of Smith from website of Sonic Youth. 1923 births 1991 deaths American archivists Collage filmmakers American experimental filmmakers American folk-song collectors American folklorists American occultists People from Bellingham, Washington People from Greenwich Village Artists from Portland, Oregon Artists from San Francisco Visual music artists 20th-century American musicians Record collectors