On the rubble-strewn site of the future Lincoln Center Ken Jacobs assembled his cast for the shooting of his epic Star Spangled to Death. Smith seized the opportunity and took Jacobs' camera to film the others cavorting and dancing around the ruins. The title arises from the piece of scotch tape which had become wedged in the camera gate. Tony Conrad credits his work on Scotch Tape’s innovative soundtrack as a revelation that informed his own filmmaking practice.

Sims and Fleischner, dressed in gowns, franticly jump up and down in front of a flickering television set in Smith's Lower East Side apartment. Overstimulated was later intercut with newsreel footage of the 1940 Republican Convention for Smith’s Horror and Fantasy at Midnight program, which then evolved into his last feature, No President.

Fimmaker and former music video director Mary Jordan’s fascinating portrait features Smith’s rare and unseen films and photographs along with audio recordings, acting appearances, and other relics squeezed from Smith’s vaulted archive. Intercutting interview commentaries from art luminaries, film critics, and Smith’s friends, family, and enemies, the film presents Smith’s controversial viewpoints on capitalism, critics and institutional-art “gatekeepers.” It also explores Smith’s tenuous relationships with Andy Warhol and Jonas Mekas while offering previously undocumented biographical insight into Smith’s early impoverished childhood in a poignant homage to New York’s ultimate antihero and the King of the Underground.