Ron Rice

The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man

Ron Rice

Taylor Mead, Winifred Bryan

“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

The Flower Thief

Ron Rice

Taylor Mead, Turk Leclair

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

Chumlum

Ron Rice

Jack Smith, Beverly Grant

Ron Rice's Chumlum is one of those films in which the conditions of its construction are integral to the experience of watching it. It is a record of a cadre of creative people having fun on camera, playing dress-up, dancing, flirting, lazing around.

Senseless

Ron Rice

Heinz Dressler, Taylor Mead

"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.

Taylor Mead's Acting Class

Ron Rice

Taylor Mead

Taylor Mead teaching his craft.

Voyage

Jerry Jofen

Ron Rice, Joel Markman

Sub-theme: recording, celebrating and mourning the final journey, the Odyssey toward freedom and death.

The Mexican Footage

Ron Rice

"When Ron Rice died, in Mexico, he left a dozen rolls of exposed film. This sample contains four rolls of beautiful color and black and white, shot in Mexico." – Jonas Mekas.