Le Voleur de bicyclette
Jul 21, 1948Chômeur depuis deux ans, Antonio trouve un emploi de colleur d'affiches, mais il se fait voler sa bicyclette, outil indispensable dans le cadre de son nouveau métier.
Drama
Piero Heliczer
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The Autumn Feast
Jan 01, 1961A deliberately non-synchronous film, shot in 8mm with the sound on tape. Piero Heliczer reads his poem "The Autumn Feast," and the visuals interact with, but does not literally represent, what is read.
The Making of an Underground Film
Sep 06, 1965CBS bit on Piero Heliczer shooting his film 'Venus in Furs' (they mistakenly call it 'Dirt'). Released by Boo-Hooray as part of their exhibit on Heliczer and The Dead Language Press. Features the earliest known footage of The Velvet Underground. Shots of Angus MacLise on percussion, a bit of Heliczer on sax, interview segments with Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage (with a clip of a film he shot of Michael McClure) and Edie Segewick.
Venus in Furs
Dec 15, 1966Where a nun and a nurse go to hell because of their sinful life in St. Vincent's Hospital.
No President
Feb 02, 1969Smith's third feature film was originally titled "The Kidnapping of Wendell Willkie by the Love Bandit," in reaction to the 1968 Presidential Campaign. It mixes B&W footage of Smith's creatures with old campaign footage of Willkie, a liberal Republican who ran against FDR in the 1940's. The climax of the work appears to be the "auctioning" of the presidential candidate at a convention.
Homeo
Nov 15, 1967Le deuxième film d’O’Leary est un collage décousu de séquences magnifiquement filmées: paysages urbains, panneaux et panneaux publicitaires, nus et caméos d’autres acteurs/cinéastes français de l’époque.
Documentary
Screen Test #3
Oct 23, 1966
Bengasi
Jan 10, 1942The film is set in 1941 during the Second World War, when the city of Benghazi in Italian-ruled Libya was occupied by British forces. Italian inhabitants of Benghazi work to resist the British and discover their military plans. One man, Captain Enrico Berti, appears to be collaborating with the British but is in fact working undercover for Italian intelligence. The film ends with the city being recaptured by Italian troops and their Nazi German allies.
Drama
Birth of a Nation
Aug 06, 1997Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
Documentary
Couch
Jul 01, 1964The 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 "perform" on camera, seated on the old couch. Their many acts-both lascivious and mundane-are documented in a film that has come to be regarded as one of the most notorious of Warhol's early works. Across the course of the film we encounter such figures as poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, the writer Jack Kerouac, and perennial New York figure Taylor Mead.
Flaming Creatures
Apr 29, 1963Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously enough with several men and women, mostly of indeterminate gender, vamping it up in front of the camera and participating in a mock advertisement for an indelible, heart-shaped brand of lipstick. However, things take a dark, nightmarish turn when a transvestite chases, catches and begins molesting a woman. Soon, all of the titular “creatures” participate in a (mostly clothed) orgy that causes a massive earthquake. After the creatures are killed in the resulting chaos, a vampire dressed like an old Hollywood starlet rises from her coffin to resurrect the dead. All ends happily enough when the now undead creatures dance with each other, even though another orgy and earthquake loom over the end title card.
Comedy
The Soap Opera
Jan 01, 1964A documentary on the beginnings of the cultural revolution on the Lower East Side, New York.
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
Nov 28, 1965The 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, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film at 24 frames per second. The resulting two-and-a-half-minute film reels were then screened in 'slow motion' at 16 frames per second.
Documentary
Robin Hood
Apr 10, 1970Venus in Furs
Dec 15, 1966Where a nun and a nurse go to hell because of their sinful life in St. Vincent's Hospital.
The Autumn Feast
Jan 01, 1961A deliberately non-synchronous film, shot in 8mm with the sound on tape. Piero Heliczer reads his poem "The Autumn Feast," and the visuals interact with, but does not literally represent, what is read.
The Autumn Feast
Jan 01, 1961A deliberately non-synchronous film, shot in 8mm with the sound on tape. Piero Heliczer reads his poem "The Autumn Feast," and the visuals interact with, but does not literally represent, what is read.
The Autumn Feast
Jan 01, 1961A deliberately non-synchronous film, shot in 8mm with the sound on tape. Piero Heliczer reads his poem "The Autumn Feast," and the visuals interact with, but does not literally represent, what is read.
Dirt
Sep 25, 1965Venus in Furs
Dec 15, 1966Where a nun and a nurse go to hell because of their sinful life in St. Vincent's Hospital.
Joan of Arc
Jan 10, 1967The story of Joan of Arc as applied to the present revolution in arts and more. The Gothic is applied to the War in Vietnam. The film is experimental in the sense that in it the visual becomes tactile.
The Soap Opera
Jan 01, 1964A documentary on the beginnings of the cultural revolution on the Lower East Side, New York.
Satisfaction
Mar 31, 1966Satisfaction
Mar 31, 1966
The Stone Age
Jan 31, 1970"The question is, it is either going to be a stoned age or a new Stone Age" - Louis Brigante
The Stone Age
Jan 31, 1970"The question is, it is either going to be a stoned age or a new Stone Age" - Louis Brigante
