Taylor Mead — Actor (7)
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man (1981) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
director: Ron Rice actor: Taylor Mead / Winifred Bryan
other title: Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man
“New York plays itself, as Taylor Mead and Winifred Bryan regale in pas de deux among the trashcans and the towers. The Studiedly Goofy and the Monumentally Grand are joined in masterly pas de don’t [...] The awed couple do battle with the status quo and teach the world to dance on the head of a bin. Rice detects real dignity in Bryan and amazing grace in Mead as they essay solitary promenades through the parks, subways and streets of a wintery New York landscape. Photographed and directed by Ron Rice, edited and scored by Taylor Mead.” –Edward Leffingwell
One Hour (1990) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
C'est vrai
director: Robert Frank actor: Taylor Mead / Peter Orlovsky
other title: C'est vrai
One of the longest handheld tracking shots in film history, It’s Real documents an hour in the street life of downtown Manhattan. Not only is it a unique record of a particular time and place—July 26, 1990, from 3:45 to 4:45 p.m. in the Lower East Side near Robert Frank’s studio (we note in a Daily News headline that after some 20 years the Zodiac killer still hasn’t been identified)—it’s also an experiment in fragmentary language, gesture, and life caught unawares. Snippets of dialogue captured in passing at phone booths and crosswalks, in alleyways, subways, and diners—chance encounters, only presumably, with people going about their day—have something of the aleatory cut-up technique of the Dadaists in the 1920s and William Burroughs and Byron Gysin in the 1950s, an effort to divine new and deeper meanings in ordinary life. — Museum of Modern Art
Jonas in the Desert (1994) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban
Jonas in the Desert
director: Peter Sempel actor: Jonas Mekas / 阿道法斯·梅卡斯
other title: 沙漠中的乔纳斯
Not a documentary in the strictest sense of the word. Rather, it is a journey through the world of the artist Jonas Mekas - one of the exponents of independent U.S. movies; founder and director of the New York Anthology Film Archive.