Mario Montez

A small experimental film produced in the USA in early 1960s. Due to its surreal, graphic depiction of sexuality, the film was seized by the police at its premiere, and was officially determined to be obscene by a NY Criminal Court. (Wikipedia.org)

Cherub-faced Ari is adorable but so hyperactive and wild he is virtually feral. Montez offers to read to him, sing to him and dance for him, but Ari is oblivious to her charms and more interested in alternately pretending to be a crocodile and a cowboy and shooting her with his toy gun (towards the end Montez finally snaps, "Can't you find something else to shoot at?"). Off-screen from behind the camera director Andy Warhol himself is frequently audible encouraging urging Ari to misbehave. (imdb)

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)

Mario Montez, dressed in drag, eats a banana.

A transvestite, Mario, eats a banana. (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)

A film diary containing material from years 1964 to 1968.

Part of Warhol's four-part short film series in which he experiments with the medium.

Part of Warhol's four-part short film series in which he experiments with the medium.

We see people jumping around the city, meeting each other in a dark place where everyone seems to be dressed like an cliché Egyptian and dancing like zombies till dark. the dancing dead than get lost somewhere in the woods and find a way out at a mysterious beach, that suddenly appears. (imdb)

The cast of "creatures," including Mario Montez and Tiny Tim, perform in a series of disjointed sequences that oscillate between trancelike impersonation and utterly reflexive self-parody.