Taylor Mead
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Taylor Mead was an American writer, actor and performer. Mead appeared in several of Andy Warhol's underground films filmed at Warhol's Factory, as well as in works by Robert Downey Sr., Adolfas Mekas, and Ron Rice.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA
Birthday: December 31, 1924
Deathday: May 08, 2013
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Coffee and Cigarettes
Overview: Coffee And Cigarettes is a collection of eleven films from cult director Jim Jarmusch. Each film hosts star studded cast of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-03-12
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Shadows in the City
Overview: Paul Mills is a miserable, lonely man leading a meaningless existence in a nameless city and has visions of the Spirit of Death waiting to collect him while having encounters with various people while seeking solace for his short life knowing it will end soon. Shadows in the City was the last major work of New York’s 1980s No Wave film scene. Shot over seven years in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens, painter-performer Ari Roussimoff’s only fiction feature captures the urban desolation of the city in the decade before gentrification.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-08-23
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Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV
Overview: A horrific explosion creates a dimensional portal between Tromaville and its dimensional mirror image, Amortville. While the Toxie is trapped in the mirror dimension, Tromaville comes under the control of his evil doppelganger, the Noxious Offender.
Genres: Comedy Horror Science Fiction Action Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-01
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Passions
Overview: A young German Jesus-like figure journeys somewhat aimlessly through the poverty of Glasgow's Gorbals, New York, and Calcutta, encountering eccentrics and misfits as he travels, before reaching some sort of peace in Hawaii.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-05-31
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Babo 73
Overview: The president of the United Status, who, when he isn’t at the White House— a dilapidated Victorian— conducts his top-secret affairs on a deserted beach.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-05
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The Flower Thief
Overview: A beat vagabond traverses San Francisco's deepest nooks and crannies, spreading about a peculiar brand of wisdom and lollygagging.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-25
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Senseless
Overview: "Consisting of a poetic stream of razor-sharp images, the overt content of SENSELESS portrays ecstatic travelers going to pot over the fantasies and pleasures of a trip to Mexico... highly effective cutting subtly interweaves the contrapuntal developement of themes of love and hate, peace and violence, beauty and destruction."-- David Brooks.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
Overview: “New York plays itself, as Taylor Mead and Winifred Bryan regale in pas de deux among the trashcans and the towers. The Studiedly Goofy and the Monumentally Grand are joined in masterly pas de don’t [...] The awed couple do battle with the status quo and teach the world to dance on the head of a bin. Rice detects real dignity in Bryan and amazing grace in Mead as they essay solitary promenades through the parks, subways and streets of a wintery New York landscape. Photographed and directed by Ron Rice, edited and scored by Taylor Mead.” –Edward Leffingwell
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-01
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Toilet Gator
Overview: An alligator terrorizes residents in a New York City apartment building, attacking them in their bathrooms.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2017-01-01
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Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of
Overview: Shot during Warhol's cross-county trip to Los Angeles during his second exhibition at the Ferus - the same trip during which he filmed the footage for Elvis at Ferus. Locations included Hollywood, Malibu, Venice, Pasadena, Topanga Canyon, the Santa Monica pier and the Beverly Hills Hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-18
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No Such Thing as Gravity
Overview: Set in the future, this tells of an Earth run by a conglomerate called the LaFont Corporation, which uses machines to rule its subjects. "Troublemakers" and malcontents are exiled to an artificial planet called Terra Nova. Problems arise when Terra Nova suddenly shifts its orbit and threatens to crash into Earth.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Beyond Queer: Voices from Bohemia
Overview: Former Warhol Superstar and creator of the seminal sexual politics performance spectacular Bitch!Dyke!Faghag!Whore!, Penny Arcade, washed up on the shores of the Lower East Side of New York as a teenager in 1967. After decades in the Downtown art world, Penny’s personal relationships with dozens of outrageous characters, from the world famous to the fascinatingly obscure, led to the creation of the Lower East Side Biography Project, an oral history of New York’s Bohemian culture from the 1950s to the present. These half-hour biographies have broadcast weekly on Time Warner Manhattan Cable Television for 20 years. Beyond Queer is a feature documentary compiled from these television interviews.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-28
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Notes for Jerome
Overview: During the summer of 1966 Jonas Mekas spent two months in Cassis, as a guest of Jerome Hill. Mekas visited him briefly again in 1967, with P. Adams Sitney. The footage of this film comes from those two visits. Later, after Jerome died, Mekas visited his Cassis home in 1974. Footage of that visit constitutes the epilogue of the film. Other people appear in the film, all friends of Jerome.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-07-03
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Will More seduciendo a Taylor Mead
Overview: Lost Zulueta short
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Cleopatra
Overview: Cleopatra situates itself in the same relationship to Hollywood as the Warhol/Morrisey films of the period. It corresponds to Joseph Mankiewicz's 1963 Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton which Auder's cast watched and used as the starting point for scene by scene improvisation Auder drew his cast from Warhol's ensemble – including not only Viva and Louis Waldon, but also Taylor Mead, Ondine, Andrea Feldman, Gerard Melanga and others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-07-30
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Underground U.S.A.
Overview: The Sunset Blvd. of underground cinema, and a suitably ambivalent retrospect on the star-game casualties of New York's upper depths, with Patti Astor statuesquely hysterical as a 20-year-old Norma Desmond, made up to recall Edie Sedgwick and surrounded by Warhol's lost children. We've been here before, but without the hindsight: a camera cruise along a hustler's meat-rack, kitchen-talk over cold canned spaghetti, Taylor Mead grimacing in a spastic dance, the silent stud a sullenly passive observer. Mitchell's ear for campy native wit and eye for figures in a loft-scape happily keep at bay the otherwise contagious NY ennui.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-11-06
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Trail of Blood
Overview: A SOV dramatization of the crimes of the Green River Killer, by the cult filmmaker Ari Roussimoff.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-28
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Four Stars
Overview: Photographed entirely in color, Four Stars was projected in its complete length of nearly 25 hours (allowing for projection overlap of the 35-minute reels) only once, at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque in New York City. The imagery in the film is dense, wearying and beautiful, but ultimately hard to decipher, for, in contrast to his earlier, and more famous film Chelsea Girls, made in 1966, Warhol insisted that two reels be screened simultaneously on top of each other on a single screen, rather than side-by-side. The film's title is a pun on the rating system used by critics to rank films, with "four stars" being the highest rating. From Wikipedia.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-15
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Tally Brown, New York
Overview: Tally Brown, New York is a 1979 documentary film directed, written and produced by Rosa von Praunheim. The film is about the singing and acting career of Tally Brown, a classically trained opera and blues singer who was a star of underground films in New York City and a denizen of its underworld in the late 1960s. In this documentary, Praunheim relies on extensive interviews with Brown, as she recounts her collaboration with Andy Warhol, Taylor Mead and others, as well as her friendships with Holly Woodlawn, and Divine. Brown opens the film with a cover of David Bowie’s “Heroes” and concludes with “Rock ’n’ Roll Suicide.” The film captures not only Tally Brown’s career but also a particular New York milieu in the 1970s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1979-05-04
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Pay It No Mind: Marsha P. Johnson
Overview: Marsha P. Johnson was a drag queen, sex worker, and LGBT activist who fought at Stonewall and knew Andy Warhol. She was a New York fixture who made her motto her middle name: "Pay it no mind". This documentary about her life includes the last interview she gave before the suspicious circumstances of her death in 1992.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-15
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Emergency: The Living Theatre
Overview: a 32-minute color film by Gwen Brown, featuring precious footage of Living Theatre productions “Mysteries” and smaller pieces, “Paradise Now” and “Frankenstein.” “The fusion of Brown’s freewheeling direct cinema and the Living Theatre’s performance for revolutionary change (amidst the heydays of both) unite as a dynamic concoction of the era, yielding for the viewer a shifting terrain of both critical insight and ecstatic zeal, not as a vacant nostalgia for a pre-commodified radicality, but as tactical inspiration for future days.” – Andrew Wilson (Artist’s Access Television)
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-09
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Grimace
Overview: Produced over several years between 1962 and 1967, Grimaces shows the faces of over a hundred artists, gallery owners and critics grimacing to the camera.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: is
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Frogs for Snakes
Overview: A group of unemployed theater actors survive by working as illegal money collectors. The loan shark they are working for owns an Off-Broadway theater. As he decided to play "American Buffalo" there, a bloody battle for the favorite roles begin.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-08-14
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Passion in a Seaside Slum
Overview: In this silent color 8mm film shot in Venice Beach in 1961, Taylor Mead plays “the faggot” who persistently cruises a butch guy intent only on fishing in one of the canals. Mead uses the magic wand of a radio antenna to transform himself into ever more implausible drag figures in his attempts to garner the guy’s interest, but only succeeds in soliciting his amused laughs. “I played eight or more roles in this film–all bizarre, outrageous, non-pornographic but upsetting to many mores.” (Taylor Mead) Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Anthology Film Archives in 2011.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-09
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The Nude Restaurant
Overview: At a New York City restaurant, the patrons are men, nude but for a G-string, waited on by one woman, also clad in a G-string and a G-bestringed waiter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-13
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Brand X
Overview: In 1969, Taylor Mead complained to his friend artist Wynn Chamberlain that Andy Warhol had never paid him for any of the work he had done for him and Wynn said he would make a film especially for Taylor. Inspired by the banality of 1960's television, Chamberlain wrote and directed Brand X, an 87 minute series of faux television shows spoofing the politics and mass media of the day, complete with commercials for Sex, Sweat, Computer Dating and Peanut Butter. BRAND X follows Taylor Mead through a day in a wacky television studio as he portrays an exercise guru, a talk show host, a veteran returning from the American Civil War, a hospital patient in a soap opera, the President of the United States and a televangelist giving the Nightly Sermon. BRAND X satirizes President Nixon, the Vietnam War, sex, drugs, computers, money and race relations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-18
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Feedback
Overview: Low budget drama centering on unscrupulous political Machiavellians in the Soviet Union.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd
Overview: THE SINEMA OF NICK ZEDD is the first DVD collection of the filmmaker’s works, and includes 11 of his films as well as outtakes, interviews, and rare concert footage of Zedd’s music project, the noise band Zyklon-B. Contains: Police State, The Bogus Man, Ecstasy in Entropy, Why do you Exist, Whoregasm, War is Menstual Envy (exerpt), Tom Thumb in the Land of the Giants, the Wild World of Lydia Lunch, Go to Hell, Zedd’s Collaborations: Thrust in Me (with Richard Kern), Go to Hell, I of K9 with outtakes and screentests from Why do you Exist and Ecstasy in Entropy, Concert Footage and Interview with Zedd’s Industrial noise band Zyklon Beatles, and a trailer for War is Menstrual Envy.
Genres: Action Fantasy Music Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-23
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Buster's Bedroom
Overview: A young woman who is obsessed with Buster Keaton stays in the sanatorium where the actor was once a patient.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-09
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365 Day Project
Overview: This exhibition focuses on Jonas Mekas’ 365 Day Project, a succession of films and videos in calendar form. Every day as of January 1st, 2007 and for an entire year, as indicated in the title, a large public (the artist's friends, as well as unknowns) were invited to view a diary of short films of various lengths (from one to twenty minutes) on the Internet. A movie was posted each day, adding to the previously posted pieces, resulting altogether in nearly thirty-eight hours of moving images.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-12-31
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Too Young, Too Immoral
Overview: A man recalls the sad, short life of his narcotics-addicted brother.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-10
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Salvador Dalí at Work
Overview: Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows the surrealist artist around the streets of New York documenting staged public art events.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-11
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The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
Overview: Describing herself as a 'street queen,' Johnson was a legendary fixture in New York City’s gay ghetto and a tireless voice for LGBT pride since the days of Stonewall, who along with fellow trans icon Sylvia Rivera, founded Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.), a trans activist group based in the heart of NYC’s Greenwich Village. Her death in 1992 was declared a suicide by the NYPD, but friends never accepted that version of events. Structured as a whodunit, with activist Victoria Cruz cast as detective and audience surrogate, The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson celebrates the lasting political legacy of Johnson, while seeking to finally solve the mystery of her unexplained death.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-07-27
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Mesmer
Overview: Bill Rice hypnotizes Taylor Mead.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Beautiful Darling
Overview: James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her all-too-brief life and career, with a combination of current and vintage interview material, rarely seen archival photos and footage, and extracts from Darling's movies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-02
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Midnight Cowboy
Overview: Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-25
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Homeo
Overview: Homeo is a mental construction made from visual reality, just as music is made from auditive reality. I put in this film no personal intentions. All my intentions are personal. I’ve made this film thinking of what the audience would have liked to see, not something specific that I wanted to say: what the film depicts is above all reality, not fiction. Homeo is, for me, the search for an autonomous cinematographic language, which doesn't owe anything to traditional narrative, or maybe everything. Cinema is, above all, part of a way of life which will become more and more self-assured in the years and century to come. We are part of this change, and that’s why I tried in Homeo to establish a series of perpetual changes, in constant evolution or regress, which tries, above all, to focus on things.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-15
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The Illiac Passion
Overview: Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to the "forest." There, under an apple tree, he communes with his selves, represented by celebrated personages from the New York "underground scene" who appear as modern correlatives to the figures of Greek mythology. The filmmaker, who narrates the situations with a translation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound , finds the personalities of his characters to have a timeless universality.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-30
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Hallelujah the Hills
Overview: Jack and Leo vie for the affections of Vera – who appears a little differently to each man – over the course of a series of energetic sketches, flashbacks and homages.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-16
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The Bizarre Ones
Overview: While on a leisurely ride in the country, a kinky dominatrix picks up a young male hitchhiker. At the first opportunity she handcuffs and blindfolds him, then takes him to a farmhouse where she ties up the young man and brings out three of her fellow dominatrixes, who take turns abusing and humiliating their captive--and each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-01
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Imitation of Christ
Overview: Warhol's Factory visits Los Angeles.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-01
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San Diego Surf
Overview: Viva and Taylor Mead are a married couple renting an extra beach-house to a group of surfers sent to them by a Mr. Morrissey of La Jolla Realty. Their daughter, Ingrid Superstar, is pregnant and on the hunt for a husband. Mr. Mead, who is gay, tries to pawn her off to one of the surfers. Meanwhile, Viva wants a divorce from her boy-crazy hubby, who wants a surfer of his own. Tom, a surfer, is inveigled by Mr. Mead to urinate on him. In a close-up, Mr. Mead receives Tom's offering ecstatically, after which he comments, "I'm a real surfer now."
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-01
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Taylor Mead's Ass
Overview: Taylor Mead humorously bares his ass for Andy Warhol.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
Overview: In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's performances and films punctuate interviews with artists, critics, friends and foes to create an engaging portrait of the artist. Widely known for his banned queer erotica film Flaming Creatures, Smith was an innovator and firebrand who influenced artists such as Andy Warhol and John Waters.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-04-11
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Birth of a Nation
Overview: Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-06
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Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story
Overview: Documentary about American artist and former Warhol superstar, Brigid Berlin.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-08
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Le Désir attrapé par la queue
Overview: "Desire Caught by the Tail" - Described as surrealistic, absurd, and weird. The narrative is nonlinear and the meaning nearly impossible to decipher, the work has been praised despite, and sometimes for, its lack of message.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-07-24
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Wonderland USA
Overview: Alice ends up in the derelict houses of Coney Island and Times Square. She sinks into a wonderland of decadence and despair, into the no-mans-land of lost souls, charlatans, broken dreams and cheap perversions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Taylor Mead's Acting Class
Overview: Taylor Mead teaching his craft.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-01
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Union City
Overview: A 1950s accountant with a restless wife grows paranoid after hiding a milk thief's corpse next door.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-26
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Taylor and Me
Overview: A film that's often credited to Andy Warhol, but was shot by Ron Rice.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Last Supper
Overview: In an empty lot in Harlem, an elite group of New Yorkers prepares for a book-signing party given in honor of a writer who never shows up. Local residents, dealing with the practicality of life, look on as the guests obsess about identity, status, and success.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-02
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Excavating Taylor Mead
Overview: The film icon/Andy Warhol darling is interviewed is his legendary cluttered apartment.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-10-08
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Couch
Overview: The couch at Andy Warhol's Factory was as famous in its own right as any of his Superstars. In Couch, visitors to the Factory were invited to "perform" on camera, seated on the old couch. Their many acts-both lascivious and mundane-are documented in a film that has come to be regarded as one of the most notorious of Warhol's early works. Across the course of the film we encounter such figures as poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, the writer Jack Kerouac, and perennial New York figure Taylor Mead.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-01
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The Deflowering
Overview: A dystopian future in which bodily contact is taboo and all children are conceived artificially. As a result, allergies are out of control and flowers are considered poisonous. Amidst this chaos, one couple decides to have a baby the old fashioned way and it causes an uproar.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
Overview: The film explores the memory and the legacy of the 60s counterculture through interviews with NY political activists, artists and people on the street. The mosaic of voices heard in the documentary creates a public site for memories, reflections and hopes for the future to be shared beyond the confines of one's community. An inter-generational exploration on what is left of the 60s in people's memory and consciousness.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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The Party in Taylor Mead's Kitchen
Overview: Taylor Mead personified Beatnik in Ron Rice’s classic The Flower Thief in 1960 and has since appeared in scores of films. Fifty-one years later, The Party in Taylor Mead’s Kitchen finds Taylor still living the life of the bohemian, devoted to poetry, painting, partying, acting, homo-eroticism, gossip, and indifference to bourgeois notions of hygiene. The Party in Taylor Mead’s Kitchen offers, in stark and humorous relief, the contrasting romantic beauty and squalid dereliction of la vie boheme.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Full Circle: Before They Were Famous
Overview: An astonishing journey of the images taken by William John Kennedy in the early 60's of Robert Indiana, Andy Warhol with their iconic works.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-03
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The Piles Project
Overview: An experimental film which features Art World superstars Mark Kostabi and Taylor Mead.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-16
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Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar
Overview: Warhol Superstar Ultra Violet (Isabelle Colin Dufresne) and Lower East Side Icon Taylor Mead (Poet/Actor/Artist) share their stories of Manhattan in the 1960s.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-14
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In the Fabulous Underground
Overview: A documentary about Anton Perich, brilliant Croatian artist, naturalized New Yorker. He worked as photographer at Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine and has been active member of the Factory since early seventies.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-07-31
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The Cockettes
Overview: Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-16
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The Secret Life of Hernando Cortez
Overview: A distinctly 1960s counterculture film presenting a series of odd sex-themed vignettes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties
Overview: Documentary on Andy Warhol's cinema of the sixties, made for Channel 4 in association with The Factory, MOMA and the Whitney Museum of Art and in collaboration with Simon Field.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Electra Elf: The Beginning
Overview: The birth of Electra Elf & Fluffer!
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-15
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Ecstasy in Entropy
Overview: An agit-prop edutainment ho down featuring a bevy of warrior lapdancers struggling to overthrow corporate state capitalism and rancid criminal globalisation through amateur wrestling, gun juggling and anarchist debate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Jonas in the Desert
Overview: Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas - one of the exponents of independent U.S. movies; founder and director of the New York Anthology Film Archive.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
Overview: Andy Warhol described Jackie Curtis as “A pioneer without a frontier.” In this biographical documentary, Curtis’s co-workers and friends speak of her work and her influence, along with clips from Curtis’s Warhol films as well as never-before-seen footage from her stage shows.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-05-05
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Hit Squad
Overview: A gang of thieves are robbing luxury apartments in Rome, but after emptying the villa of the wealthy Mr. Douglas, the thieves are beginning to die.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-10-29
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Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Overview: The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film at 24 frames per second. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in 'slow motion' at 16 frames per second.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-28
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Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol
Overview: Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at both his life and his influence on pop culture. The film provides details about Warhol's upbringing in Pittsburgh and follows his move to New York City, where he found massive success turning pop imagery into art and eventually founded "The Factory," his famed studio and party venue. Among the many notables interviewed are Dennis Hopper, David Hockney, and Roy Lichtenstein.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-18
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Dialogue with Che
Overview: In 1967, José Rodriguez Soltero made “Dialogue with Che” (1968), starring Venezuelan artist, actor, producer and dancer Rolando Peña as Che. Warhol superstar Taylor Mead is also featured, in the role of a CIA agent. “The film was partly underwritten by Andy Warhol, who gave a check to cover lab fees. "Dialogue..." was seldom shown in the States - it is entirely in Spanish - but had some life in the European screens. It had a modest run at the Cinémathèque Française, where it was championed by Marie Meerson and Henri Langlois, and played at the Berlin Film Festival in 1969. Historically, it has been shown with two prints projected side by side, the second screen starting with a 3-minute delay. --Film-Makers Coop
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Il mostro verde
Overview: Short made for double parallel projections, for which Allen Ginsberg said that it's his favorite underground European film, debut from the director, cheeky hommage to B-movies.
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-12-31
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Lemon Hearts
Overview: Taylor Mead plays eleven roles in this entirely improvised film, as he drifts aimlessly through the ruins of a series of soon-to-be-demolished Victorian houses, sometimes appearing in drag, sometimes in blue jeans and a sweatshirt.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-26
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To L.A. with Lust
Overview: "...wild and dirty, but so easy to understand...that it may be considered a fair introduction to cinematic youth on-the-march. It has distinct traces of humor...and offers several moments of pleasure...the star, Ingrid Lothigius, is a blond who photographs well and deadpans her life and hard times like a pro." -Archer Winsten, The New York Post.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-26
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Open the Door and See all the People
Overview: Based on Jerome Hill's unpublished novel, Peacock Feathers, this ensemble piece focuses on the relationship between two aging sisters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-25
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It’s Real
Overview: One of the longest handheld tracking shots in film history, It’s Real documents an hour in the street life of downtown Manhattan. Not only is it a unique record of a particular time and place—July 26, 1990, from 3:45 to 4:45 p.m. in the Lower East Side near Robert Frank’s studio (we note in a Daily News headline that after some 20 years the Zodiac killer still hasn’t been identified)—it’s also an experiment in fragmentary language, gesture, and life caught unawares. Snippets of dialogue captured in passing at phone booths and crosswalks, in alleyways, subways, and diners—chance encounters, only presumably, with people going about their day—have something of the aleatory cut-up technique of the Dadaists in the 1920s and William Burroughs and Byron Gysin in the 1950s, an effort to divine new and deeper meanings in ordinary life. — Museum of Modern Art
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
Overview: Takes an in-depth look at the lives and times of the people who hung out with Andy Warhol and "worked" at the Silver Factory during the Sixties, making it all click as a new counter-culture arose and began to exert its influence throughout the arts.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Lonesome Cowboys
Overview: Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse.
Genres: Western Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-01
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Tarzam
Overview: "The story of a shipwrecked baby reared by a kindly animal. See Tarzam, the beast-man, invent the art of painting. He meets his first human. His scene deepens from innocence to corruption and to final violence. Taylor is sublime, as always. The text is his, of course." – Edwin Denby *Contains a scene where "Tarzam" (played by Mead) gets sick from eating berries and is cured when a missionary doctor, played by Edwin Denby, administers an enema.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-20
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Taylor Mead Dances
Overview: Tayor travels in his white Rolls Royce to the Second City nightclub, where he dances. With Tayor Mead, Katherine Roberts, and Roberts Blossom.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Jesus
Overview: Michel Auder’s Jesus – in which underground NY artists and Warhol superstars openly discuss their beliefs. Jesus – which premiered as a screening at The Kitchen in 1980 – mixes documentary elements such as footage of evangelical TV programs, books, cartoons, paintings, and other Jesus related imagery – with performances including Taylor Mead as a priest in the West Village and Florence Lambert playing a crucified Jesus. Also, intercut throughout are surprisingly candid interviews with Auder’s friends, family, and people he approaches on New York City streets about their faith and relationship to the world’s most famous person. Among those interviewed are Diego Cortez, Jackie Curtis, Gerard Malanga, Alice Neel (Andrew Neel’s grandmother), Larry Rivers, and Viva.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Man Under Wire
Overview: An interaction between two downtown legends and a pigeon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-23
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