Brand X (1970)
1h 27m
Running Time
May 18, 1970Release Date
Plot.
In 1969, Taylor Mead complained to his friend artist Wynn Chamberlain that Andy Warhol had never paid him for any of the work he had done for him and Wynn said he would make a film especially for Taylor. Inspired by the banality of 1960's television, Chamberlain wrote and directed Brand X, an 87 minute series of faux television shows spoofing the politics and mass media of the day, complete with commercials for Sex, Sweat, Computer Dating and Peanut Butter. BRAND X follows Taylor Mead through a day in a wacky television studio as he portrays an exercise guru, a talk show host, a veteran returning from the American Civil War, a hospital patient in a soap opera, the President of the United States and a televangelist giving the Nightly Sermon. BRAND X satirizes President Nixon, the Vietnam War, sex, drugs, computers, money and race relations.
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Cast & Crew.
Taylor Mead
Viewer / President / Minster
Abbie Hoffman
Policeman (Lawren Order)
Sally Kirkland
Patient / President's Wife
Candy Darling
Marlene D-Train
Tally Brown
Talk Show Hostess
Ultra Violet
Singer
Frank Cavestani
Doctor
Win Chamberlain
Director
Ken Lauber
Composer
John Harnish
Cinematographer
Susanna Baumgard
Patient
Karen Edwards
Editor
Paul Fagan
Surfer
Mike Misch
Editor
Pat Paulsen
President
Dick Vorisek
Sound
Details.
This Movie Is About.
mockumentary
art
new york
politics
political satire
social satire