ANDY WARHOL'S COUCH

to JULY 1964: ANDY WARHOL FILMS COUCH

Unidentified man, Kate Heliczer
and Rufus Collins in Couch (1964)

Couch is a 16mm silent B/W film lasting 40 minutes which Warhol shot in July 1964. The cast includes Gerard Malanga, Piero Helzicer, Naomi Levine, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, John Palmer, Baby Jane Holzer, Ivy Nicholson, Amy Taubin, Ondine, Peter Orlovski, Jack Kerouac, Taylor Mead, Kate Helzicer, Rufus Collins, Joseph LeSeuer, Bingingham Birdie, Mark Lancaster, Gloria Wood, Billy Linich.

Stephen Koch:

"Those who have seen this film report that it is a very long, and entirely pornographic, series of the possible permutations of sexual adventure among the protagonists on the old red couch that was at the center of the 47th Street Factory." (SG145)

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