Bicycle Thieves

Bicycle Thieves

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to...

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Flaming Creatures

Flaming Creatures

Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously enough with...

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Birth of a Nation

Birth of a Nation

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

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Andy Warhol Screen Tests

Andy Warhol Screen Tests

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...

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The Making of an Underground Film

The Making of an Underground Film

CBS 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...

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Screen Test #3

Screen Test #3

One of Andy Warhol's screen tests, focusing on an actor's face for 4-5 mins.

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Bengasi

Bengasi

The 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...

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Homeo

Homeo

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...

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The Autumn Feast

The Autumn Feast

A deliberately non-synchronous film, shot in 8mm with the sound on tape. Piero Heliczer reads his poem "The Autumn Feast," and the visuals interact...

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Couch

Couch

The 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...

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No President

No President

Smith's third feature film was originally titled "The Kidnapping of Wendell Willkie by the Love Bandit," in reaction to the 1968 Presidential...

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The Soap Opera

The Soap Opera

A documentary on the beginnings of the cultural revolution on the Lower East Side, New York.

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Venus in Furs

Venus in Furs

Where a nun and a nurse go to hell because of their sinful life in St. Vincent's Hospital.

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