Movies: Paul Morrissey

Screen Test: Helmut, by Andy Warhol, is a five minute silent black and white continuous close-up of a young man’s face. The face remains deathly still other than the occasional blink or involuntary bat of his eyelash. The film is slowed down to about...

Documentary about American artist and former Warhol superstar, Brigid Berlin....

Diane the Zebra Woman follows four women’s misadventures through the streets of New York City in 1962. All played by Flame Schon, the characters consist of The Detective, The Mother, The Child, and the Medium. Evocative of the scene from which it eme...

A computer hacker uses his high-tech skills to get into personal computers, and from their into their homes. His sister is the only chance the world has of stopping him....

A young man reads a comic depicting what the title says. We see his face and reactions. He finally finishes the book and leaves the scene....

Vera von Lehndorff is a Prussian noblewoman and daughter of the Count Lehndorff, a leader of the anti-Nazi resistance, executed during WW II. She was discovered in 1959 by Italian photographer Ugo Mulas. After initial failure, she changed her name to...

A young man smokes a cigarette and then uses a surgeon scalpel to wound his thigh....

"The collage paintings of Stanley Fisher: sin, sex, and gore blaring across the screen." – P. M. "PEACHES AND CREAM, which closes in on the paintings and gets rid of the spectators' distance, is a spectacular success. The camera supplies visual movem...

A series of Andy Warhol’s screen tests, focusing on an actor’s face for 4-5 mins....

Paul Morrissey’s first film, a collage work made up of found footage from 1950s newsreels....

Ronald Tavel taunts Philip Fagan, who lacks the verbal dexterity to counter the clever spider’s web of words that Ronald Tavel weaves to ensnare him, so that Fagan’s only response is to refuse to respond and stare silently off-screen, turning the scr...

Andy directs Lou Reed drinking a Coke....

A Cannes red carpet tribute for three iconic protagonists of Warhol's Factory glory days....

Legendary filmmaker Paul Morrissey waxes disgruntled about sex, religion, & art....

Nodding to the TV actress Mary Martin, who took part in a New York anti-litter campaign in 1961, Paul Morrissey imagines a pretty young litter-picker turned murderess who poisons bums with adulterated booze until an old bag lady throws her under a mo...

Riffing on Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents is “about a cleansing energy applied to a fallen world. But this time the mode is self-mocking satire. A poet of lye and laughing gas, Morrissey has concocted a new genre: slapstick neorealism.” (Don...

Paul Morrissey lowers his brow and stares back at the camera with a stern and determined look. A bright light falls from the right; the left side of the frame is completely black. As the film progresses, he lowers his brow further; by the end of the ...