Couch (movie)
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Original title | couch |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1966 |
length | 54 minutes |
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Director | Andy Warhol |
production | Andy Warhol |
occupation | |
Couch is a Underground - experimental film by Andy Warhol . It was filmed in July 1964 in Warhol's studio The Factory in 16mm format. The premiere took place on April 17, 1966 at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque (125 West 41st Street, Manhattan ).
action
The black and white - silent film shows a length of 54 minutes several couples who sexually can have fun on the famous "red couch" with each other. Actors include Gerard Malanga , Piero Heliczer , Naomi Levine , Gregory Corso , Allen Ginsberg , Baby Jane Holzer , Ivy Nicholson , Ondine , Peter Orlovsky , Jack Kerouac , Taylor Mead and Billy Name .
background
The historical significance of the film lies in its breaking taboos , on the one hand in the free portrayal of homosexual acts, on the other hand in the fact that in one scene a white woman and a white man have sex with a black man (" Threesome "). At the time of racial segregation and the escalating racial unrest in the USA, this was a courageous statement for the emancipation of colored people.
literature
- Enno Patalas (ed.): Andy Warhol and his films: A documentary . Heyne, Munich 1971, ISBN 0-200-41991-9 .
- Stephen Koch: Stargazer. The Life, World and Films of Andy Warhol . London 1974; Updated reissue by Marion Boyars, New York 2002, ISBN 0-7145-2920-6 .
- Bernard Blistène (Ed.): Andy Warhol, Cinema: à l'occasion de l'Exposition Andy Warhol Rétrospective (21 juin - 10 septembre 1990) organized à Paris par le Musée National d'Art Moderne au Center Georges Pompidou . Ed. du Center Georges Pompidou, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-908393-30-1 .
- Debra Miller: Billy Name: Stills from the Warhol films . Prestel, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-7913-1367-3 .
- Astrid Johanna Ofner (Ed.): Andy Warhol - Filmmaker. A retrospective of the Viennale and the Austrian Film Museum October 1 to 31, 2005 . Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-85266-282-6 .
Web links
- Couch in the Internet Movie Database (English)