Jerry Tartaglia

Jerry Tartaglia. Director: Escape from Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith. Jerry Tartaglia is a filmmaker and writer whose work in Experimental Film and Queer Cinema spans four decades. He studied with the Abstract Expressionist Painter, Harry Koursaros, at Albright College,who introduced him to experimental film and the work of Jack Smith, Jonas Mekas, and Gregory Markopoulos. Later, he co-founded Berks Filmmakers Inc, one of the longest surviving Micro-Cinema...