Piero Heliczer Movies

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential...

Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously...

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

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. Italian...

Homeo is a mental construction made from visual reality, just as music is made from auditive reality. I put in this film no personal intentions. All...

Part of the Dirt Trilogy

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...

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...

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,...

Two nuns take a bath, then meet a sailor on the Staten Island Ferry.

One of Andy Warhol's screen tests, focusing on an actor's face for 4-5 mins.

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. The film is experimental...

"The question is, it is either going to be a stoned age or a new Stone Age" - Louis Brigante

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...

Smith's third feature film was originally titled "The Kidnapping of Wendell Willkie by the Love Bandit," in reaction to the 1968 Presidential...

A documentary on the beginnings of the cultural revolution on the Lower East Side, New York.

Where a nun and a nurse go to hell because of their sinful life in St. Vincent's Hospital.

"Considered to be Mr. Heliczer's most experimental film." - Piero Heliczer