Piero Heliczer

AKA: Pier Giorgio Herliczer
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1937-06-20

Rome, Italy

Biography

Piero Heliczer was an Italian-American poet, publisher, actor and underground filmmaker associated with the New American Cinema.

Crew Roles

Robin Hood
Director
Venus in Furs
Director of Photography
The Autumn Feast
Music
The Autumn Feast
Writer
The Autumn Feast
Director
Dirt
Director
Venus in Furs
Director
Joan of Arc
Director
The Soap Opera
Director
Satisfaction
Writer
Satisfaction
Director
The Stone Age
Director
The Stone Age
Writer
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {13}

A Young Boy (uncredited)

1948-07-21 8.172

Bicycle Thieves

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can f ...
Genre :Drama

1961-01-01 6.4

The Autumn Feast

A deliberately non-synchronous film, shot in 8mm with the sound on tape. Piero Heliczer reads his poem "The Autumn Feast," and the visuals interact with, but does not literally represent, what is read ...
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Self

1965-09-06 6

The Making of an Underground Film

CBS bit on Piero Heliczer shooting his film 'Venus in Furs' (they mistakenly call it 'Dirt'). Released by Boo-Hooray as part of their exhibit on Heliczer and The Dead Language Press. Features the earl ...
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1966-12-15 6

Venus in Furs

Where a nun and a nurse go to hell because of their sinful life in St. Vincent's Hospital. ...
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1969-02-02 4.5

No President

Smith's third feature film was originally titled "The Kidnapping of Wendell Willkie by the Love Bandit," in reaction to the 1968 Presidential Campaign. It mixes B&W footage of Smith's creatures with o ...
Genre :

Self

1967-11-15 4.714

Homeo

Homeo is a mental construction made from visual reality, just as music is made from auditive reality. I put in this film no personal intentions. All my intentions are personal. I’ve made this film thi ...
Genre :Documentary

Self (uncredited)

1966-10-23 8

Screen Test #3

One of Andy Warhol's screen tests, focusing on an actor's face for 4-5 mins. ...
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Sandrino Berti (Pucci)

1942-01-10 4.857

Bengasi

The film is set in 1941 during the Second World War, when the city of Benghazi in Italian-ruled Libya was occupied by British forces. Italian inhabitants of Benghazi work to resist the British and dis ...
Genre :Drama, War

Self

1997-08-06 6.3

Birth of a Nation

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996. Fast-paced and archival in spirit, the film celebrates ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1964-07-01 6

Couch

The couch at Andy Warhol's Factory was as famous in its own right as any of his Superstars. In Couch, visitors to the Factory were invited to "perform" on camera, seated on the old couch. Their many a ...
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1963-04-29 4.526

Flaming Creatures

Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie studio.” Flaming Creatures begins humorously enough with several men and women, mostly of indeterminate gende ...
Genre :Comedy, Horror, Fantasy

1964-01-01 10

The Soap Opera

A documentary on the beginnings of the cultural revolution on the Lower East Side, New York. ...
Genre :

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