Piero Heliczer Trailers
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Piero Heliczer was an Italian-American poet, publisher, actor and underground filmmaker associated with the New American Cinema.
Most Popular Piero Heliczer Trailers
Total trailers found: 18
Venus in Furs Trailer (1966)
15 December 1966
Where a nun and a nurse go to hell because of their sinful life in St. Vincent's Hospital.
The Making of an Underground Film Trailer (1965)
06 September 1965
CBS bit on Piero Heliczer shooting his film 'Venus in Furs' (they mistakenly call it 'Dirt'). Released by Boo-Hooray as part of their exhibit on Heliczer and The Dead Language Press.
Andy Warhol Screen Tests Trailer (1965)
28 November 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 film at 24 frames per second.
Bicycle Thieves Trailer (1948)
21 July 1948
Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen.
Screen Test #3 Trailer (1966)
23 October 1966
One of Andy Warhol's screen tests, focusing on an actor's face for 4-5 mins.
Couch Trailer (1964)
01 July 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.
The Autumn Feast Trailer (1961)
01 January 1961
A deliberately non-synchronous film, shot in 8mm with the sound on tape. Piero Heliczer reads his poem "The Autumn Feast," and the visuals interact with, but does not literally represent, what is read.
Homeo Trailer (1967)
15 November 1967
Homeo is a mental construction made from visual reality, just as music is made from auditive reality.
The Soap Opera Trailer (1964)
01 January 1964
A documentary on the beginnings of the cultural revolution on the Lower East Side, New York.
Bengasi Trailer (1942)
10 January 1942
The film is set in 1941 during the Second World War, when the city of Benghazi in Italian-ruled Libya was occupied by British forces.
Joan of Arc Trailer (1967)
10 January 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.
Dirt Trailer (1965)
25 September 1965
Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry.
The Stone Age Trailer (1970)
31 January 1970
"The question is, it is either going to be a stoned age or a new Stone Age" - Louis Brigante
Robin Hood Trailer (1970)
10 April 1970
"Considered to be Mr. Heliczer's most experimental film." - Piero Heliczer
Birth of a Nation Trailer (1997)
06 August 1997
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996.
Flaming Creatures Trailer (1963)
29 April 1963
Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously enough with several men and women, mostly of indeterminate gender, vamping it up in front of the camera and participating in a mock advertisement for an indelible, heart-shaped brand of lipstick.
No President Trailer (1969)
02 February 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.
