Taylor Mead Movies

Taylor Mead personified Beatnik in Ron Rice’s classic The Flower Thief in 1960 and has since appeared in scores of films. Fifty-one years...

"Desire Caught by the Tail" - Described as surrealistic, absurd, and weird. The narrative is nonlinear and the meaning nearly impossible to decipher,...

Bill Rice hypnotizes Taylor Mead.

The film explores the memory and the legacy of the 60s counterculture through interviews with NY political activists, artists and people on the...

In the mid-1970s, Gary Weis made some short films of Mead talking to his cat in the kitchen of his Ludlow Street apartment on Manhattan's Lower East...

Lost Zulueta short

"My home movies which weigh 2 pounds so far began in Mexico City where I got bored and bought a 50-ft. Keystone at National Pawn Shop-I was...

A SOV dramatization of the crimes of the Green River Killer, by the cult filmmaker Ari Roussimoff.

A beat vagabond traverses San Francisco's deepest nooks and crannies, spreading about a peculiar brand of wisdom and lollygagging.

Low budget drama centering on unscrupulous political Machiavellians in the Soviet Union.

A film that's often credited to Andy Warhol, but was shot by Ron Rice.

A young German Jesus-like figure journeys somewhat aimlessly through the poverty of Glasgow's Gorbals, New York, and Calcutta, encountering...

Taylor Mead plays eleven roles in this entirely improvised film, as he drifts aimlessly through the ruins of a series of soon-to-be-demolished...