Ultra Violet

AKA: Isabelle Collin Dufresne
2.0042

1935-09-06

Grenoble, France

Biography

Isabelle Collin Dufresne was a French-American artist, author, and both a colleague of Andy Warhol and one of the pop artist's so-called superstars. Earlier in her career, she worked for and studied with surrealist artist Salvador Dalí. Dufresne lived and worked in New York City, and also had a studio in Nice, France.

Not Available
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {34}

Ultra Violet

1970-03-06 3.5

The Phynx

A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania held by communist enemies of the USA. ...
Genre :Comedy

Whip Woman

1971-10-03 6

The Telephone Book

A sexually voracious young woman receives a dirty phone call from a stranger; so satisfied by the experience, she sets out to find him somewhere in New York City. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Drama

The Countess

1972-01-01 2

Curse of the Headless Horseman

A hippie medical student named Mark inherits his uncle's Wild West theme park. Mark and his stoner pals move in, only to find out that a violent ghost already lives there. ...
Genre :Horror

(archive footage)

1985-10-01 2.4

Reel Horror

Evil spirits that emerge from cans of old movie film terrorize a neighborhood. ...
Genre :Fantasy, Horror, Comedy

Sarah

1971-04-02 5.1

Simon, King of the Witches

Simon is a modern day warlock. Though he lives in a storm drain and sometimes talks to trees, he's deadly serious about his witchcraft. After being picked up for vagrancy, Simon spends a night in jail ...
Genre :Drama, Horror, Comedy

1967-08-24 4.9

I, a Man

Morrissey and Warhol's commercial take on the Swedish film I, A Woman. Somebody suggested to Warhol that they wanted a sexploitation film in the vein of I, A Woman, and so he and Morrissey concocted I ...
Genre :Drama

1970-07-30 4.3

Cleopatra

Cleopatra situates itself in the same relationship to Hollywood as the Warhol/Morrisey films of the period. It corresponds to Joseph Mankiewicz's 1963 Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard ...
Genre :Documentary

Daniela

1970-12-01 1

Dinah East

A glamorous movie queen of the 1950s is revealed to be a man whose secret led to complicated relationships. ...
Genre :Drama

Iliona, a Decadent

1972-06-27 5

Savages

A tribe of primitive "mudpeople" encounter a croquet ball, rolling through their forest. Following it, they find themselves on a vast, deserted Long Island estate. Entering, they begin to become civil ...
Genre :Fantasy, Drama, Comedy

Herself

1965-03-22 6.667

The Life of Juanita Castro

A playwright taunts a number of actors into improvising a truly ridiculous but subtlely meaningful meditation on Fidel Castro and his family. ...
Genre :Comedy

Singer

1970-05-18 4

Brand X

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 Tayl ...
Genre :Comedy

The Party

1969-05-25 7.5

Midnight Cowboy

Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy ...
Genre :Drama

1967-07-24 0

Le Désir attrapé par la queue

"Desire Caught by the Tail" - Described as surrealistic, absurd, and weird. The narrative is nonlinear and the meaning nearly impossible to decipher, the work has been praised despite, and sometimes f ...
Genre :Drama

2010-09-21 0

New York Conversations

New York Conversations is a documentary made of varied conversations revolving around cinema in New York. These conversations give us the opportunity to sketch some of the bad boys and girls -director ...
Genre :

1967-12-15 2

Four Stars

Photographed entirely in color, Four Stars was projected in its complete length of nearly 25 hours (allowing for projection overlap of the 35-minute reels) only once, at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque ...
Genre :

SPFC Member

1971-03-28 6.895

Taking Off

Unable to deal with her parents, Jeannie Tyne runs away from home. Larry and Lynn Tyne search for her, and in the process meet other people whose children ran away. With their children gone, the paren ...
Genre :Music, Comedy, Drama

Lady MacBeth

1978-05-24 6.699

An Unmarried Woman

A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Comedy

Self

2014-11-27 9

How I Learned to Love the Numbers

How I Learned to Love the Numbers is a New York film and at the same time the study of a young man suffering from an obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The Berlin filmmaker Oliver Sechting (37) and ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

2016-04-14 0

Taylor & Ultra: On the 60s, The Factory, and Being a Warhol Superstar

Warhol Superstar Ultra Violet (Isabelle Colin Dufresne) and Lower East Side Icon Taylor Mead (Poet/Actor/Artist) share their stories of Manhattan in the 1960s. ...
Genre :

Self

2010-12-03 0

Full Circle: Before They Were Famous

An astonishing journey of the images taken by William John Kennedy in the early 60's of Robert Indiana, Andy Warhol with their iconic works. ...
Genre :Documentary

1973-05-08 5.3

Bad Charleston Charlie

A pair of miners attempt to muscle their way into a life of crime. 'Hilarity' ensues. ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy

N°1084

1978-12-20 4.3

Cinématon

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series ...
Genre :Documentary

Emergency Room Patient

1971-12-08 5.2

Believe in Me

Remy is a medical student who has a flair for making his patients comfortable. His genuine concern for the patients in his charge marks him as a hot prospect in his internship program. Pamela works at ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Daughter of Montezuma

1969-01-01 0

The Secret Life of Hernando Cortez

A distinctly 1960s counterculture film presenting a series of odd sex-themed vignettes. ...
Genre :

Herself

1971-03-09 4.1

Maidstone

Over a booze-fueled, increasingly hectic five-day shoot in East Hampton, Norman Mailer and his cast and crew spontaneously unloaded onto film the lurid and loony chronicle of U.S. presidential candida ...
Genre :Drama

Self

2001-01-27 0

Andy Warhol: The Complete Picture

Andy Warhol, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century (who also coined the immortal catchphrase "In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes"), gets the definitive treatment. ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1965-11-28 8

Andy Warhol Screen Tests

The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects were captured in stark relief by a strong key light, and filmed by Warhol with his stationary 16mm Bolex ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1990-07-18 7.3

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol

Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at both his life and his influence on pop culture. The film provides details about Warhol's upbringing ...
Genre :Documentary

2008-01-01 3.5

Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory

Takes an in-depth look at the lives and times of the people who hung out with Andy Warhol and "worked" at the Silver Factory during the Sixties, making it all click as a new counter-culture arose and ...
Genre :

Arlette

1994-01-01 0

Blackout

Three Young People go to the "Red Zone" of a futuristic London in this low budget underground feature. ...
Genre :

1970-01-31 0

The Stone Age

"The question is, it is either going to be a stoned age or a new Stone Age" - Louis Brigante ...
Genre :

2024-03-20 7.3

I Shot Andy Warhol: SCUM Manifesto

New York, June 3, 1968. Valerie Solanas enters the Factory, Andy Warhol's studio, and fires three shots at him, who miraculously survives, but is seriously wounded. What led this woman to try to kill ...
Genre :Documentary, History, TV Movie

2005-11-25 0

Vies et morts d'Andy Warhol

Icon of pop art, Andy Warhol has marked the 20th century. This film pays tribute to him with the exceptional participation of Ultraviolet, never-before-seen images of the "private" Warhol and archival ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1962-10-01 6.222

The Merv Griffin Show

The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndi ...
Genre :Talk