performers:

Harry Smith (films)

Harry Everett Smith (29 May 1923, Portland, Oregon – 27 November 1991, New York City) was an American archivist, ethnomusicologist, student of anthropology, record collector, experimental filmmaker, artist, bohemian and mystic. Smith is a well-known figure in several fields. People who know him as a filmmaker often do not know of his 1952 Anthology of American Folk Music, while folk music enthusiasts often do not know he was “the greatest living magician”.

He grew up in Anacortes, making early amateur “museums” in his father’s cannery buildings (not far from the Port Warehouse where his films will be shown) as well as an “alchemy laboratory”, among a million other incredible things.