Gerard Malanga

Andy Warhol's America (2022)

A pioneering artist and cultural icon. His work is a history of 20th-century America. A country reinventing itself - as seen through the legendary artist's eyes. ...

Otonal (2021)

According to Hesiod, autumn begins when the Pleiades, the daughters of Atlas, rise. It is generally said that autumn is the most beautiful of the seasons, for the spectacle that nature offers but also because it is the time of the harvest and the grape ha ...

Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible (2020)

A remarkable walk through the life and work of the French artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968), one of the most important creators of the 20th century, revolutionary of arts, aesthetics and pop culture. ...

Beyond the Bolex (2018)

Filmmaker Alyssa Bolsey stumbles on a treasure trove of vintage cameras, old film reels, fading photos, technical drawings and boxes of documents that belonged to her great-grandfather Jacques Bolsey. Among the many boxes, she spots an old movie camera wit ...

Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground (2018)

The 29-minute experimental film Christmas on Earth caused a sensation when it first screened in New York City in 1964. Its orgy scenes, double projections and overlapping images shattered artistic conventions and announced a powerful new voice in the city' ...

Andy Warhol, Fluorescent (2016)

A documentary on the legendary creator and victim of pop art. Warhol, revolutionary and controversial, was never afraid to break the mold and reshape the reals of art, advertising, and directing. But who was the real man being behind the colors in which he ...

A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol (2015)

Stephen Smith sets out to discover the real Andy Warhol - in the hour-by-hour detail of his daily life. ...

Beautiful Darling (2010)

James Rasin's documentary "Beautiful Darling" honors American Transgender actress and best-known Warhol Superstar, Candy Darling, and her all-too-brief life and career, with a combination of current and vintage interview material, rarely seen archival phot ...

It Came from Kuchar (2009)

It Came from Kuchar is the definitive, feature documentary about the legendary, underground filmmaking twins, the Kuchar brothers. George and Mike Kuchar have inspired two generations of filmmakers, actors, musicians, and artists with their zany, "no budge ...

Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory (2008)

Takes an in-depth look at the lives and times of the people who hung out with Andy Warhol and "worked" at the Silver Factory during the Sixties, making it all click as a new counter-culture arose and began to exert its influence throughout the arts. ...

A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory (2007)

Esther Robinson's portrait of her uncle Danny Williams, Warhol's onetime lover, collaborator and filmmaker in his own right, offers a exploration of the Factory era, an homage to Williams's talent, a journey of family discovery and a compelling inquiry int ...

The Real Edie (2007)

A documentary about Edie Sedgwick featuring photos of her and clips from Factory Girl, narrated by her real-life friends and loved ones, including her brother Jonathan, cousin John Sedgwick, roommate Danny Fields, artists Richie Berlin and Gerard Malanga, ...

Factory Girl (2006)

In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems to have it all, Edie cannot have the love she craves from Andy, and she has an affair with a charismatic m ...

Velvet Underground's First Public Appearance (2006)

Velvet Underground's first public appearance. ...

Andy at Work (2006)

Andy Warhol at the Village Gate, June 7, 1966. Andy videotaping John Kennedy Jr. and Anthony Radziwill at Andy's estate, 1971, in Montauk, Long Island. Andy at work in his studio, 1976, Union Square, New York. Lee Radziwill, Peter Beard, Gerard Malanga, Pe ...

Notes on Marie Menken (2006)

A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken. ...

Meet The Kuchar Brothers (2006)

Provides a rare glimpse into the world of George and Mike Kuchar, underground filmmaking brothers from the Bronx. Get to know the Kuchars, casually hanging out with John Waters at a party, looking at old yearbook photos with their high school classmate Ger ...

Excavating Taylor Mead (2005)

The film icon/Andy Warhol darling is interviewed is his legendary cluttered apartment. ...

Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture (2001)

Andy Warhol, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century (who also coined the immortal catchphrase "In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes"), gets the definitive treatment. This film includes a look into his inner circle and exam ...

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol (1990)

Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at both his life and his influence on pop culture. The film provides details about Warhol's upbringing in Pittsburgh and follows his move to New York City, whe ...

Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections (1990)

Jonas Mekas's intimate diary film spans 1963 to 1990, capturing Andy Warhol alongside friends and collaborators from the New York avant-garde. Featuring figures such as Allen Ginsberg, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, and George Maciunas—as well as rare footage of ...

Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties (1989)

Documentary on Andy Warhol's cinema of the sixties, made for Channel 4 in association with The Factory, MOMA and the Whitney Museum of Art and in collaboration with Simon Field. ...

Nico: In Memoriam (1989)

"Not a documentary but the the ruins of an attempted documentary." - Grashina Gabelmann Nico's solo concert in West Berlin 1986. She's high, giggly, not entirely there but her voice is still haunting and raspy and her presence still the one of a star. We ...

Andy Warhol (1987)

The first major profile of the American Pop Art cult leader after his death in 1987 covers the whole of his life and work through interviews, clips from his films, and conversations with his family and superstar friends. Andy Warhol, the son of poor Czech ...

The South Bank Show: Velvet Underground (1986)

Season 9 episode 23 of The South Bank Show, highlighing the velvet underground ...

Jesus (1979)

Michel Auder's Jesus – in which underground NY artists and Warhol superstars openly discuss their beliefs. Jesus – which premiered as a screening at The Kitchen in 1980 – mixes documentary elements such as footage of evangelical TV programs, books, c ...

The Stone Age (1970)

"The question is, it is either going to be a stoned age or a new Stone Age" - Louis Brigante ...

Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks (1970)

This compilation of Gerard Malanga's short films consists of a collection of extremely rare footage and film portraits providing candid and interesting glimpses of Bob Dylan, Salvador Dalí, Jane Fonda and The Velvet Underground among other 1960s icons and ...

No President (1969)

Smith'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 ...

Dillinger Is Dead (1969)

A man decides to cook for himself and finds a revolver (which may have belonged to John Dillinger) hidden in his kitchen. ...

The Illiac Passion (1967)

Prometheus, on an Odyssean journey, crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. After meeting the Muse, he proceeds to the "forest." There, under an apple tree, he communes with his selves, represented by celebrated personag ...

Four Stars (1967)

Photographed entirely in color, Four Stars was projected in its complete length of nearly 25 hours (allowing for projection overlap of the 35-minute reels) only once, at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque in New York City. The imagery in the film is dense, wear ...

Poem Posters (1967)

... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, William Burroughs, Andy Warhol, Rudy Gernreich, Jonas Mekas and others. ...

Joan of Arc (1967)

The 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. ...

Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1967)

Exploding Plastic Inevitable was a series of multimedia events organised by Andy Warhol between 1966 and 1967, featuring musical performances by The Velvet Underground and Nico, screenings of Warhol's films, and dancing and performances by regulars of Warh ...

Souvenir (1967)

A man drifts around Rome's tourism spots. ...

Malanga (1967)

Gerard Malanga reads his poetry for 24 frames, dances to Velvet Underground for 24 frames, reads for 23 frames, dances for 23 frames, reads for 22 frames, etc., until he is doing both things alternately one frame at a time. An experiment in Audio-visual sy ...

Paranoia (1966)

On the evening of November 8th, 1966, following the afternoon filming of The George Hamilton Story, a movie in which Warhol cast his mother Julia as an "aging peroxide movie star with a lot of husbands", – " We're trying to bring back old people." – he ...

Where Did Our Love Go (1966)

Warhol Factory days... serendipity visits, Janis and Castelli and Bellevue glances... Malanga at work ... glances at Le Mépris and North by Northwest... girl rock groups and a disco opening... a romp through the Modern. My second film. Preserved by the A ...

Hall of Mirrors (1966)

This film is an outgrowth of one of Sonbert's film classes at NYU, in which he was given outtakes from a Hollywood film photographed by Hal Mohr to re-edit into a narrative sequence. Adding to this found footage, Sonbert filmed Warhol's superstars Rene Ric ...

Since (1966)

Andy Warhol's experimental reconstruction of the assassination of the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, which serves as his critical commentary on the way the media presented the tragic event. ...

Chelsea Girls (1966)

Follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City. ...

Match Girl (1966)

Satisfaction (1966)

Part of the Dirt Trilogy ...

Andy Warhol + Roy Lichtenstein (1966)

This program profiles Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, two of pop art's greatest icons. Back-to-back interviews highlight their differences. The voluble Lichtenstein, interviewed in his studio, discusses his methods and the use of familiar objects in his ...

Kitchen (1966)

Instructed by Warhol to write a vehicle for Edie Sedgwick in a "completely white" setting, scenarist Ronald Tavel created one of Warhol's most iconic films. Here a group of performers of all stripes – the sink and litter basket receive equal billing to t ...

Hedy (1966)

Egotistical faded star Hedy Lamarr visits a plastic surgeon to be transformed into the "14-year-old girl" she believes herself to be. She is then caught shoplifting by Mary Woronov and is put on trial, with Tavel as the judge and her five ex-husbands the j ...

The Velvet Underground and Nico: A Symphony of Sound (1966)

The film depicts a rehearsal of The Velvet Underground including Nico, and is essentially one long loose improvisation. ...

The Velvet Underground: Psychiatrist's Convention, NYC, 1966 (1966)

The Velvet Underground's first public appearance, filmed in Super 8 at a Psychiatrist's Convention, at the Delmonico Hotel, New York, January 14, 1966. Andy Warhol was invited to speak at the annual banquet of the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry. ...

Bufferin (1966)

Gerard Malanga reads some of his poems and excerpts from his diaries substituting the word "bufferin" for most of the proper names in the readings, while Ronna Page gives an ongoing commentary in the film. ...

Salvador Dalí (1966)

Salvador Dalí is a 35-minute film directed by Andy Warhol. The film features surrealist artist Salvador Dalí visiting The Factory and meeting the rock band The Velvet Underground. ...

Kiss the Boot (1966)

Gerard Malanga on all fours nuzzles and kisses Mary Woronov's leather boots. ...

Andy Warhol Screen Tests (1965)

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, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of fi ...

Camp (1965)

Shot at Warhol's Silver Factory, Camp features a group of Superstars putting on a "summer camp" talent show complete with singing, dancing, jokes, poetry, and Gerard Malanga as master of ceremonies. ...

Dirt (1965)

Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry. ...

Andy Warhol (1965)

Andy Warhol is a lyrical exploration of Warhol's creative process by filmmaker, painter, and actress Marie Menken. Using a hand-held camera, Menken captures Warhol and his assistants, including Gerard Malanga, as they work at the Factory. The result is an ...

Vinyl (1965)

Andy Warhol's screen adaptation of Burgess's "A Clockwork Orange". ...

Harlot (1965)

Jean Harlow-lookalike Harlot (Mario Montez), Gerard Malanga, Philip Fagan, and Carol Koshinskie (with a cat) sit in a room eating bananas as the off-screen voices of Billy Name, Ronald Tavel, and Harry Fainlight discuss various topics. ...

Bitch (1965)

"Andy Warhol called Marie Menken and Willard Maas 'the last of the great bohemians,' and, in 1965, made Bitch, his real-life parody of Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, with Willard and Marie sitting on the couch in their living room, dr ...

Jeremelu (1964)

A rapid montage collage featuring Jack Smith and a Warholian kiss. ...

Award Presentation to Andy Warhol (1964)

In 1964 Film Culture magazine chose Andy Warhol for its annual Independent Film award. The plan was to show some of Andy's films and have Andy come on stage and hand him the award. Andy said, no, he didn't want a public presentation. ...

The Thirteen Most Beautiful Boys (1964)

Inspired by a 1962 NYPD pamphlet entitled 'The Thirteen Most Wanted [Men]'. Warhol transformed it from 'most wanted men' into 'most beautiful boys', and then began to film the very first Screen Tests, continuing to film for the series into early 1966, tota ...

Couch (1964)

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 "perform" on camera, seated on the old couch. Their many acts-both lascivious and mundane-are documented in a film ...

Batman Dracula (1964)

Batman Dracula is a 1964 black and white American film produced and directed by Andy Warhol, without the permission of DC Comics. The film was screened only at Warhol's art exhibits. A fan of the Batman series, Warhol made the movie as a homage. Batman Dra ...

Batman Dracula – “Jack Gerard Smoking” (1964)

One of four finished Batman Dracula shorts shown publicly by Warhol. ...

Soap Opera (1964)

Soap Opera, starring Baby Jane Holzer and Lester Persky, among Factory regulars, intercuts television commercials of its day with silent domestic scenes shot by Warhol. ...

Three (1964)

A film structured in threes: three men, three reels of three minutes each, three acts with a different arrangement of bodies in the bathroom of the Factory, whose door has conveniently been left open for us to peek in. ...

Fu (1964)

"Fu" is one of two rolls Warhol shot for Couch that includes heterosexual sex, albeit with two men and a woman. Features the trio of Rufus Collins, Kate Heliczer, and Gerard Malanga. Unused in Couch. ...

Kiss (1963)

An hour-long paean to the art of the kiss featuring fourteen couples, from passionate participants to lethargic lovers, engaging in the intimate act. ...

Chumlum (1963)

Ron Rice's Chumlum is one of those films in which the conditions of its construction are integral to the experience of watching it. It is a record of a cadre of creative people having fun on camera, playing dress-up, dancing, flirting, lazing around. ...

Factory Girl (2006)

In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems to have it all, Edie cannot have the love she craves from Andy, and she has an affair with a charismatic m ...

The South Bank Show: Velvet Underground (1986)

Season 9 episode 23 of The South Bank Show, highlighing the velvet underground ...

Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks (1970)

This compilation of Gerard Malanga's short films consists of a collection of extremely rare footage and film portraits providing candid and interesting glimpses of Bob Dylan, Salvador Dalí, Jane Fonda and The Velvet Underground among other 1960s icons and ...

Quick Constant and Solid Instant (1969)

"Quick Constant and Solid Instant documents a Flux Mass at Voorhees Chapel at Rutgers University in 1969; intercut with the paintings of John Wallington, and Rod Townley on his Harley Davidson motorcycle. Soundtrack: Gerard Malanga, reading his poems at Th ...

Preraphaelite Dream (1968)

Split screen, two-projector stereo sound film documenting the filmmaker's friends and extended family in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as they perform their lives for the camera ...

In Search of the Miraculous (1967)

In the Search of the Miraculous is a multi-levelled story realized with extremely personal techniques and with the kind of atmosphere of Poetry and Introspection, only a poet could create. It is, in fact, the story of a poet searching himself through his l ...

Andy Warhol : Portrait of the Artist as A Young Man (1965)

One of the most important films in Malanga's body of work is his series of movie portraits of Andy Warhol from 1964-65. Comprised of seven individual 3-minute reels, Andy Warhol: Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man is the most intimate portrait of the a ...