Tarzan And Jane Regained… Sort Of

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Movie
Original title Tarzan and Jane Regained… Sort of
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1964
length 81 minutes
Rod
Director Andy Warhol
production Andy Warhol
music Taylor Mead
cut Taylor Mead
occupation

Tarzan And Jane Regained ... Sort Of is a Underground - experimental film by Andy Warhol . It was filmed in the fall of 1963 in the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles and in Warhol's studio The Factory in 16 mm format. It was premiered on February 24, 1964 by the Film-makers' Cooperative at the New Bowery Theater, 4 St. Mark's Place, Manhattan .

action

The 80-minute sound film , shot in color and black and white, shows the actor and multimedia artist Taylor Mead as Tarzan and the avant-garde filmmaker Naomi Levine as Jane. They are joined by Wally Berman , Dennis Hopper and Pat and Claes Oldenburg . Mead imitates the "classic" hero poses and makes faces . Naomi swims naked, Taylor has to hold a sliding bikini - not on her, but on herself.

background

The film is a camp - a parody of the popular particularly in the 1950s commercial Tarzan movies of Hollywood .

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 .

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