Taylor Mead Movies

  • 1963
    The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man

    The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man

    The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man

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    “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...

    The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
  • 1962
    Passion in a Seaside Slum

    Passion in a Seaside Slum

    Passion in a Seaside Slum

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

    Passion in a Seaside Slum
  • 1962
    Senseless

    Senseless

    Senseless

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

    Senseless
  • 1967
    The Illiac Passion

    The Illiac Passion

    The Illiac Passion

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

    The Illiac Passion
  • 2007
    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

    6.72007HD

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

    Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis
  • 1969
    Tarzam

    Tarzam

    Tarzam

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    "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...

    Tarzam
  • 1967
    Grimace

    Grimace

    Grimace

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

    Grimace
  • 2012
    In the Fabulous Underground

    In the Fabulous Underground

    In the Fabulous Underground

    6.72012HD

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

    In the Fabulous Underground
  • 1980
    Underground U.S.A.

    Underground U.S.A.

    Underground U.S.A.

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    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...

    Underground U.S.A.
  • 1972
    Candy & Daddy

    Candy & Daddy

    Candy & Daddy

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    Daddy kicks Candy out of the house because she’s been promiscuous and threw a big party.

    Candy & Daddy
  • 1968
    Lonesome Cowboys

    Lonesome Cowboys

    Lonesome Cowboys

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

    Lonesome Cowboys
  • 2011
    The Party in Taylor Mead's Kitchen

    The Party in Taylor Mead's Kitchen

    The Party in Taylor Mead's Kitchen

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    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...

    The Party in Taylor Mead's Kitchen
  • 1967
    The Nude Restaurant

    The Nude Restaurant

    The Nude Restaurant

    6.51967HD

    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...

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

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

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

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

    Superstar in a Housedress: The Life and Legend of Jackie Curtis
  • 2007
    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

    365 Day Project

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    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...

    365 Day Project
  • 2017
    The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

    The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

    The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

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    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 Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
  • 2008
    Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory

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

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

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    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,...

    Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
  • 2010
    Beautiful Darling

    Beautiful Darling

    Beautiful Darling

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

    Beautiful Darling
  • 2010
    Full Circle: Before They Were Famous

    Full Circle: Before They Were Famous

    Full Circle: Before They Were Famous

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    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.

    Full Circle: Before They Were Famous
  • 1970
    Cleopatra

    Cleopatra

    Cleopatra

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

    Cleopatra