Piero Heliczer
Birthday: 1937-06-20
Place of Birth: Rome, Italy
Biography: Piero Heliczer was an Italian-American poet, publisher, actor and underground filmmaker associated with the New American Cinema.
Movies
Bicycle Thieves
Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. Howeve...
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The Autumn Feast
A deliberately non-synchronous film, shot in 8mm with the sound on tape. Piero Heliczer reads his po...
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The Making of an Underground Film
CBS bit on Piero Heliczer shooting his film 'Venus in Furs' (they mistakenly call it 'Dirt'). Releas...
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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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No President
Smith's third feature film was originally titled "The Kidnapping of Wendell Willkie by the Love Band...
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Homeo
Homeo is a mental construction made from visual reality, just as music is made from auditive reality...
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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
The film is set in 1941 during the Second World War, when the city of Benghazi in Italian-ruled Liby...
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Birth of a Nation
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independe...
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Couch
The couch at Andy Warhol's Factory was as famous in its own right as any of his Superstars. In Couch...
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Flaming Creatures
Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” ...
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The Soap Opera
A documentary on the beginnings of the cultural revolution on the Lower East Side, New York....
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Andy Warhol Screen Tests
The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were...
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