Piero Heliczer
Date of birth: 1937-06-20
Place of birth: Rome, Italy
Known for: Directing
Also known as: Pier Giorgio Herliczer
Biography
Piero Heliczer was an Italian-American poet, publisher, actor and underground filmmaker associated with the New American Cinema.
Movie Credits
Bicycle Thieves
1948-07-21
Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. Howeve
The Autumn Feast
1961-01-01
A deliberately non-synchronous film, shot in 8mm with the sound on tape. Piero Heliczer reads his po
The Making of an Underground Film
1965-09-06
CBS bit on Piero Heliczer shooting his film 'Venus in Furs' (they mistakenly call it 'Dirt'). Releas
Venus in Furs
1966-12-15
Where a nun and a nurse go to hell because of their sinful life in St. Vincent's Hospital.
No President
1969-02-02
Smith's third feature film was originally titled "The Kidnapping of Wendell Willkie by the Love Band
Homeo
1967-11-15
Homeo is a mental construction made from visual reality, just as music is made from auditive reality
Screen Test #3
1966-10-23
One of Andy Warhol's screen tests, focusing on an actor's face for 4-5 mins.
Bengasi
1942-01-10
The film is set in 1941 during the Second World War, when the city of Benghazi in Italian-ruled Liby
Birth of a Nation
1997-08-06
Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independe
Couch
1964-07-01
The couch at Andy Warhol's Factory was as famous in its own right as any of his Superstars. In Couch
Flaming Creatures
1963-04-29
Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.”
The Soap Opera
1964-01-01
A documentary on the beginnings of the cultural revolution on the Lower East Side, New York.
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
1965-11-28
The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were