Taylor Mead

New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture

Alberto Gabriele

Sam Anderson, Penny Arcade

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.

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

Brian Bayerl

Taylor Mead, Ultra Violet

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.

The Secret Life of Hernando Cortez

John Chamberlain

John Chamberlain, Taylor Mead

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

Wonderland USA

Zoe Beloff

Eszter Balint, John Cale

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.

Lemon Hearts

Vernon Zimmerman

Taylor Mead

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.

Full Circle: Before They Were Famous

Brian Bayerl

Taylor Mead, Ultra Violet

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.

The Piles Project

Peter Welch, Tim Cramer

Taylor Mead

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

Pay It No Mind

Michael Kasino

Marsha P. Johnson, Taylor Mead

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.

In the Fabulous Underground

Mauro John Capece, Claudio Romano

Cesarina Ferro, Kristina Korsholm

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.

Midnight Cowboy

John Schlesinger

Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman

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.

Too Young, Too Immoral

Raymond Phelan

John Francis, Larry Healey

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

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

Craig Highberger

Jackie Curtis, Paul Ambrose

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.

The Cockettes

Bill Weber, David Weissman

Larry Brinkin, Dusty Dawn

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

Homeo

Étienne O'Leary

Michèle Giraud, Yves Beneyton

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.

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

Mary Jordan

Jack Smith, Nayland Blake

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.

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

Ultra Violet, Allen Midgette

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.