Taylor Mead

Taylor Mead

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.

  • Title: Taylor Mead
  • Popularity: 1.66
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1924-12-31
  • Place of Birth: Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA
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Taylor Mead Movies

  • 2004
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    Coffee and Cigarettes

    Coffee and Cigarettes

    6.9 2004 HD

    Coffee And Cigarettes is a collection of eleven films from cult director Jim Jarmusch. Each film hosts star studded cast of extremely unique...

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  • 1991
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    Shadows in the City

    Shadows in the City

    1 1991 HD

    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...

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  • 2001
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    Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV

    Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV

    6.3 2001 HD

    A horrific explosion creates a dimensional portal between Tromaville and its dimensional mirror image, Amortville. While the Toxie is trapped in the...

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  • 1972
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    Passions

    Passions

    1 1972 HD

    A young German Jesus-like figure journeys somewhat aimlessly through the poverty of Glasgow's Gorbals, New York, and Calcutta, encountering...

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  • 1964
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    Babo 73

    Babo 73

    5 1964 HD

    The president of the United Status, who, when he isn’t at the White House— a dilapidated Victorian— conducts his top-secret...

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  • 1962
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    The Flower Thief

    The Flower Thief

    7 1962 HD

    A beat vagabond traverses San Francisco's deepest nooks and crannies, spreading about a peculiar brand of wisdom and lollygagging.

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  • 1962
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    Senseless

    Senseless

    1 1962 HD

    "Consisting of a poetic stream of razor-sharp images, the overt content of SENSELESS portrays ecstatic travelers going to pot over the fantasies and...

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  • 1981
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    The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man

    The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man

    6 1981 HD

    “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...

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  • 2017
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    Toilet Gator

    Toilet Gator

    1 2017 HD

    An alligator terrorizes residents in a New York City apartment building, attacking them in their bathrooms.

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  • 1964
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    Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of

    Tarzan and Jane Regained... Sort of

    1 1964 HD

    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...

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  • 1989
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    No Such Thing as Gravity

    No Such Thing as Gravity

    3.5 1989 HD

    Set in the future, this tells of an Earth run by a conglomerate called the LaFont Corporation, which uses machines to rule its subjects....

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  • 2023
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    Beyond Queer: Voices from Bohemia

    Beyond Queer: Voices from Bohemia

    1 2023 HD

    Former Warhol Superstar and creator of the seminal sexual politics performance spectacular Bitch!Dyke!Faghag!Whore!, Penny Arcade, washed up on the...

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  • 1978
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    Notes for Jerome

    Notes for Jerome

    1 1978 HD

    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...

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  • 1976
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    Will More seduciendo a Taylor Mead

    Will More seduciendo a Taylor Mead

    1 1976 HD

    Lost Zulueta short

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  • 1970
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    Cleopatra

    Cleopatra

    6 1970 HD

    Cleopatra situates itself in the same relationship to Hollywood as the Warhol/Morrisey films of the period. It corresponds to Joseph Mankiewicz's...

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  • 1980
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    Underground U.S.A.

    Underground U.S.A.

    4 1980 HD

    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...

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  • 1997
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    Trail of Blood

    Trail of Blood

    5 1997 HD

    A SOV dramatization of the crimes of the Green River Killer, by the cult filmmaker Ari Roussimoff.

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  • 1967
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    Four Stars

    Four Stars

    2 1967 HD

    Photographed entirely in color, Four Stars was projected in its complete length of nearly 25 hours (allowing for projection overlap of the 35-minute...

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  • 1979
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    Tally Brown, New York

    Tally Brown, New York

    5 1979 HD

    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...

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  • 2012
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    Pay It No Mind: Marsha P. Johnson

    Pay It No Mind: Marsha P. Johnson

    5.3 2012 HD

    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...

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  • 1968
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    Emergency: The Living Theatre

    Emergency: The Living Theatre

    1 1968 HD

    a 32-minute color film by Gwen Brown, featuring precious footage of Living Theatre productions “Mysteries” and smaller pieces,...

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  • 1967
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    Grimace

    Grimace

    1 1967 HD

    Produced over several years between 1962 and 1967, Grimaces shows the faces of over a hundred artists, gallery owners and critics grimacing to the...

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  • 1998
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    Frogs for Snakes

    Frogs for Snakes

    2 1998 HD

    A group of unemployed theater actors survive by working as illegal money collectors. The loan shark they are working for owns an Off-Broadway...

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  • 1962
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    Passion in a Seaside Slum

    Passion in a Seaside Slum

    1 1962 HD

    In this silent color 8mm film shot in Venice Beach in 1961, Taylor Mead plays “the faggot” who persistently cruises a butch guy intent...

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  • 1981
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    Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking

    Coupla White Faggots Sitting Around Talking

    1 1981 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Nude Restaurant

    The Nude Restaurant

    6.7 1967 HD

    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...

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  • 1970
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    Brand X

    Brand X

    4 1970 HD

    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...

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  • 1978
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    Feedback

    Feedback

    1 1978 HD

    Low budget drama centering on unscrupulous political Machiavellians in the Soviet Union.

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  • 2001
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    Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd

    Abnormal: The Sinema of Nick Zedd

    8 2001 HD

    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...

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  • 1991
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    Buster's Bedroom

    Buster's Bedroom

    3.5 1991 HD

    A young woman who is obsessed with Buster Keaton stays in the sanatorium where the actor was once a patient.

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  • 2007
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    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

    1 2007 HD

    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...

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  • 1962
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    Too Young, Too Immoral

    Too Young, Too Immoral

    8 1962 HD

    A man recalls the sad, short life of his narcotics-addicted brother.

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  • 2006
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    Salvador Dalí at Work

    Salvador Dalí at Work

    5 2006 HD

    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows the surrealist artist around the streets of New York documenting staged public art events.

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  • 2017
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    The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

    The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

    7.1 2017 HD

    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...

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  • 1991
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    Mesmer

    Mesmer

    1 1991 HD

    Bill Rice hypnotizes Taylor Mead.

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  • 2010
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    Beautiful Darling

    Beautiful Darling

    5.8 2010 HD

    James Rasin's documentary “Beautiful Darling” honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her...

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  • 1969
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    Midnight Cowboy

    Midnight Cowboy

    7.5 1969 HD

    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...

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  • 1967
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    Homeo

    Homeo

    5.4 1967 HD

    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...

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  • 1967
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    The Illiac Passion

    The Illiac Passion

    3.5 1967 HD

    Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds...

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  • 1963
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    Hallelujah the Hills

    Hallelujah the Hills

    6.1 1963 HD

    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...

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  • 1968
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    San Diego Surf

    San Diego Surf

    1 1968 HD

    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....

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  • 1967
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    Imitation of Christ

    Imitation of Christ

    8.5 1967 HD

    Warhol's Factory visits Los Angeles.

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  • 1968
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    The Bizarre Ones

    The Bizarre Ones

    4 1968 HD

    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...

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  • 1964
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    Taylor Mead's Ass

    Taylor Mead's Ass

    3.7 1964 HD

    Taylor Mead humorously bares his ass for Andy Warhol.

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  • 2007
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    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

    6.6 2007 HD

    In this entrancing documentary on performance artist, photographer and underground filmmaker Jack Smith, photographs and rare clips of Smith's...

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  • 1997
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    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    6.3 1997 HD

    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

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  • 2000
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    Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story

    Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story

    6.4 2000 HD

    Documentary about American artist and former Warhol superstar, Brigid Berlin.

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  • 1967
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    Le Désir attrapé par la queue

    Le Désir attrapé par la queue

    1 1967 HD

    "Desire Caught by the Tail" - Described as surrealistic, absurd, and weird. The narrative is nonlinear and the meaning nearly impossible to decipher,...

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  • 1989
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    Wonderland USA

    Wonderland USA

    6 1989 HD

    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...

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  • 1960
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    Taylor Mead's Acting Class

    Taylor Mead's Acting Class

    1 1960 HD

    Taylor Mead teaching his craft.

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  • 1980
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    Union City

    Union City

    5.1 1980 HD

    A 1950s accountant with a restless wife grows paranoid after hiding a milk thief's corpse next door.

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  • 1963
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    Taylor and Me

    Taylor and Me

    1 1963 HD

    A film that's often credited to Andy Warhol, but was shot by Ron Rice.

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  • 1992
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    Last Supper

    Last Supper

    1 1992 HD

    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...

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  • 2005
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    Excavating Taylor Mead

    Excavating Taylor Mead

    1 2005 HD

    The film icon/Andy Warhol darling is interviewed is his legendary cluttered apartment.

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  • 1964
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    Couch

    Couch

    6.2 1964 HD

    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...

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  • 1994
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    The Deflowering

    The Deflowering

    1 1994 HD

    A dystopian future in which bodily contact is taboo and all children are conceived artificially. As a result, allergies are out of control and...

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  • 2010
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    Full Circle: Before They Were Famous

    Full Circle: Before They Were Famous

    1 2010 HD

    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.

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  • 2008
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    New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture

    New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture

    1 2008 HD

    The film explores the memory and the legacy of the 60s counterculture through interviews with NY political activists, artists and people on the...

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  • 2012
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    In the Fabulous Underground

    In the Fabulous Underground

    6.7 2012 HD

    A documentary about Anton Perich, brilliant Croatian artist, naturalized New Yorker. He worked as photographer at Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine...

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  • 2011
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    The Party in Taylor Mead's Kitchen

    The Party in Taylor Mead's Kitchen

    1 2011 HD

    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...

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  • 2016
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    Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar

    Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar

    1 2016 HD

    Warhol Superstar Ultra Violet (Isabelle Colin Dufresne) and Lower East Side Icon Taylor Mead (Poet/Actor/Artist) share their stories of Manhattan in...

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  • 2008
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    The Piles Project

    The Piles Project

    1 2008 HD

    An experimental film which features Art World superstars Mark Kostabi and Taylor Mead.

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  • 1989
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    Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties

    Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties

    1 1989 HD

    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...

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  • 2002
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    The Cockettes

    The Cockettes

    6.7 2002 HD

    Documentary about the gender-bending San Francisco performance group who became a pop culture phenomenon in the early 1970s.

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  • 1969
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    The Secret Life of Hernando Cortez

    The Secret Life of Hernando Cortez

    1 1969 HD

    A distinctly 1960s counterculture film presenting a series of odd sex-themed vignettes.

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  • 1994
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    Jonas in the Desert

    Jonas in the Desert

    5.5 1994 HD

    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...

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  • 2005
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    Electra Elf: The Beginning

    Electra Elf: The Beginning

    1 2005 HD

    The birth of Electra Elf & Fluffer!

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  • 1999
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    Ecstasy in Entropy

    Ecstasy in Entropy

    3.7 1999 HD

    An agit-prop edutainment ho down featuring a bevy of warrior lapdancers struggling to overthrow corporate state capitalism and rancid criminal...

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  • 2004
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    Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis

    Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis

    3 2004 HD

    Andy Warhol described Jackie Curtis as “A pioneer without a frontier.” In this biographical documentary, Curtis’s co-workers and...

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  • 1976
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    Hit Squad

    Hit Squad

    6.5 1976 HD

    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.

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  • 1965
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    Andy Warhol Screen Tests

    Andy Warhol Screen Tests

    8 1965 HD

    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,...

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  • 1990
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    Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

    Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

    7.3 1990 HD

    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....

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  • 1968
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    Dialogue with Che

    Dialogue with Che

    5 1968 HD

    In 1967, José Rodriguez Soltero made “Dialogue with Che” (1968), starring Venezuelan artist, actor, producer and dancer Rolando...

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  • 1967
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    Il mostro verde

    Il mostro verde

    1 1967 HD

    Short made for double parallel projections, for which Allen Ginsberg said that it's his favorite underground European film, debut from the director,...

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  • 1963
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    Lemon Hearts

    Lemon Hearts

    1 1963 HD

    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...

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  • 1963
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    To L.A. with Lust

    To L.A. with Lust

    1 1963 HD

    "...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...

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  • 1964
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    Open the Door and See all the People

    Open the Door and See all the People

    5 1964 HD

    Based on Jerome Hill's unpublished novel, Peacock Feathers, this ensemble piece focuses on the relationship between two aging sisters.

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  • 1990
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    It’s Real

    It’s Real

    5.8 1990 HD

    A one-hour trip down Manhattan's Lower east Side.

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  • 2008
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    Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory

    Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory

    3.5 2008 HD

    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,...

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  • 1968
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    Lonesome Cowboys

    Lonesome Cowboys

    4.8 1968 HD

    Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse.

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  • 1969
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    Tarzam

    Tarzam

    1 1969 HD

    "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...

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  • 1962
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    Taylor Mead Dances

    Taylor Mead Dances

    1 1962 HD

    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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  • 1979
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    Jesus

    Jesus

    1 1979 HD

    Michel Auder’s Jesus – in which underground NY artists and Warhol superstars openly discuss their beliefs. Jesus – which premiered...

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  • 2006
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    Salvador Dali, Happenings

    Salvador Dali, Happenings

    5 2006 HD

    In 1963-64 Salvador Dali did a series of "Happenings" events in a New York. In all cases Peter Beard acted for Dali as both "production manager" and...

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  • 1966
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    European Diaries

    European Diaries

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1981
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    The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man

    The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man

    6 1981 HD

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  • 1981
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    The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man

    The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man

    6 1981 HD

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  • 1968
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    Home Movies: NYC to San Diego

    Home Movies: NYC to San Diego

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1966
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    European Diaries

    European Diaries

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1965
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    Home Movies - Rome/Florence/Venice/Greece

    Home Movies - Rome/Florence/Venice/Greece

    1 1965 HD

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  • 1964
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    My Home Movies

    My Home Movies

    1 1964 HD

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  • 1969
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    Tarzam

    Tarzam

    1 1969 HD

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