Taylor Mead Movies

  • 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
  • 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
  • 1994
    The Deflowering

    The Deflowering

    The Deflowering

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

    The Deflowering
  • 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
  • 2006
    Salvador Dalí at Work

    Salvador Dalí at Work

    Salvador Dalí at Work

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

    Salvador Dalí at Work
  • 1991
    Mesmer

    Mesmer

    Mesmer

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    Bill Rice hypnotizes Taylor Mead.

    Mesmer
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1965
    Andy Warhol Screen Tests

    Andy Warhol Screen Tests

    Andy Warhol Screen Tests

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    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,...

    Andy Warhol Screen Tests
  • 1989
    No Such Thing as Gravity

    No Such Thing as Gravity

    No Such Thing as Gravity

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

    No Such Thing as Gravity
  • 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
  • 1960
    Taylor Mead's Acting Class

    Taylor Mead's Acting Class

    Taylor Mead's Acting Class

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    Taylor Mead teaching his craft.

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

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

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

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

    Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar
  • 1973
    Taylor Mead's Cat

    Taylor Mead's Cat

    Taylor Mead's Cat

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    In the mid-1970s, Gary Weis made some short films of Mead talking to his cat in the kitchen of his Ludlow Street apartment on Manhattan's Lower East...

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

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

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

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    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...

    Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties
  • 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
  • 1962
    Too Young, Too Immoral

    Too Young, Too Immoral

    Too Young, Too Immoral

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

    Too Young, Too Immoral