Smith was both filmmaker and performance artist. After a period of about eight years (1961 - 1969) in which Smith showed the films in their completed forms in conventional film screening settings, he began to incorporate the films and his slides into the performances. He developed this technique called "Expanded Cinema" in many of his performance pieces of the period: "Exotic Landlordism of the World," "Dance of the Sacred Foundation Application," "Death of A Penguin," " The Secret of Rented Island, " "Shark Bait of Capitalism," and "The Horror of Uncle Fish Hook's Safe."
Smith created startling stage effects through the spontaneous re arrangement and interplay of recorded imagery on film and slides, with the live action on the "stage", editing and re-editing the film images on the spot, in the midst of the performance. This spontaneous editing, however, required a unique form of splicing in which he put together strands of camera original as well as printed material with masking tape. Thus he managed to create a unique version of the films for each performance.
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