Taylor Mead Movies

“After seeing Taylor Mead’s diaries I can’t look around myself anymore. There is so much to see! So now I sit with my back to...

Produced over several years between 1962 and 1967, Grimaces shows the faces of over a hundred artists, gallery owners and critics grimacing to the...

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

In this silent color 8mm film shot in Venice Beach in 1961, Taylor Mead plays “the faggot” who persistently cruises a butch guy intent...

Paul Mills is a miserable, lonely man leading a meaningless existence in a nameless city and has visions of the Spirit of Death waiting to collect...

Taylor Mead teaching his craft.

In an empty lot in Harlem, an elite group of New Yorkers prepares for a book-signing party given in honor of a writer who never shows up. Local...

The birth of Electra Elf & Fluffer!

"N.B. Sound On Cassette. Sync beginning of sound with image before man in a red sweater. Generally, start cassette while film leader is seen" -...

A film that's often credited to Andy Warhol, but was shot by Ron Rice.

Former Warhol Superstar and creator of the seminal sexual politics performance spectacular Bitch!Dyke!Faghag!Whore!, Penny Arcade, washed up on the...

An interaction between two downtown legends and a pigeon.

Lost Zulueta short

Daddy kicks Candy out of the house because she’s been promiscuous and threw a big party.

One of the longest handheld tracking shots in film history, It’s Real documents an hour in the street life of downtown Manhattan. Not only is...

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...

Bill Rice hypnotizes Taylor Mead.

The film explores the memory and the legacy of the 60s counterculture through interviews with NY political activists, artists and people on the...

Taylor Mead plays an aging rock star who is going broke when all of his wives suddenly appear. Starring Taylor Mead, Candy Darling, Darsea...

A tribute to Jonas Mekas' late friend and patron, Jerome Hill. Filmed on 16mm across three visits to Hill’s estate in Cassis, France, the film...