Taylor Mead
Home Movies
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Add rightsFormat DVD Interzone
Original format 16mm
Year 1964-1968
Language(s) English
Artist(s) Taylor Mead
Booklet 24 pages (French, English)
Running time 71 min
Films
MY HOME MOVIES (1964) 38'
HOME MOVIES ROME/FLORENCE/VENICE/GREECE (1965) 14'
HOME MOVIES NYC TO SAN DIEGO (1968) 19'
Description
"Years ago, when we asked Jonas Mekas which films we should publish on DVD, he answered without hesitation: 'Taylor Mead's home movies.' That's reason enough to be curious. Mead is known as an actor, clown, and improviser, 'the first star of underground cinema,' but his own films are rarely screened. The mix of documentation on the New York underground, snippets of Mead's clowning, his own hard-hitting shooting style, and the humor of his gaze make these films a precious glimpse into and product of mid-1960s New York underground culture—in stunning Kodachrome."
— Pip Chodorov