Gerard Malanga

Total Credits at Criticker: 15 (Actor)
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This documentary explores the almost forgotten story of the legendary artist Marie Menken (1909 - 1970) who became one of New York's outstanding underground experimental filmmakers of the 1940s through the1960s. The film allows a glimpse into her social and artistic struggle and radical integrity, drawing the picture of a modern myth in personal diary style. (First Run / Icarus Films)
Static images that start moving in your mind (music as drug). (imdb)
Companion piece to Warhol's previous experiment, "The 13 Most Beautiful Women"
Egotistical faded star Hedy Lamarr visits a plastic surgeon to be transformed into the "14-year-old girl" she believes herself to be. She is then caught shoplifting by Mary Woronov and is put on trial, with Tavel as the judge and her five ex-husbands the jury. Hedy remains self-centered and detached throughout, posing and primping and bursting out renditions of "I Feel Pretty" and "Young at Heart." (imdb)
In the style of a variety show, staged at the Factory. It features Gerard Malanga, dressed in a tuxedo, as the master of ceremonies, and who also does a poetry reading. Paul Swan, the famous turn of the century modern dancer, re-stages one of his old dances and ends up dancing with Jane Holzer. Jane leaves the film set after her part is done, while the others remain. Mario Montez sings If I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate and dances in drag, while the cameraman zooms frantically in and out. (warholstars.org)
Jean Harlow-lookalike Harlot (Mario Montez), Gerard Malanga, Philip Fagan, and Carol Koshinskie (with a cat) sit in a room eating bananas as the off-screen voices of Billy Name, Ronald Tavel, and Harry Fainlight discuss various topics. (imdb)
TWICE A MAN is a an hour long mood color about a young man's visit to his mother - she has summoned him to request that he break off a homosexual relationship. (SurrealMoviez)
Award Presentation to Andy Warhol (1964) - Short Film
In 1964 Film Culture magazine chose Andy Warhol for its annual Independent Film award. The plan was to show some of Andy's films and have Andy come on stage and hand him the award. Andy said, no, he didn't want a public presentation. So I decided to hand him the award at the Factory, film the occasion, and show the film at the Award Presentation show at the New Yorker Theater. (Jonas Mekas)
Exploding Plastic Inevitable (1967) - Short Film
A collection of clips from the 'Exploding Plastic Inevitable' multi-modal events held by Andy Warhol in '66-67 in collaboration with The Velvet Underground
Originally a twenty five hour film made up of shorter film segments. It consists of 83 reels each lasting approximately 33 minutes. A short story odyssey of film designed to be shown with two projectors playing simultaneously. (imdb)
Prometheus crosses the Brooklyn Bridge in search of the characters of his imagination. The filmmaker, who narrates the situations with a translation of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, finds the personalities of his characters to have a timeless universality. (TMDB)