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Brand X (1970)

Brand X (1970)

Comedy

The movie for people.

Release Date: 1970, May 18
Directors: Win Chamberlain
Cast: Frank Cavestani, Sally Kirkland, Ultra Violet, Taylor Mead, Candy Darling, Abbie Hoffman, Pat Paulsen, Tally Brown, Susanna Baumgard, Paul Fagan

Overview:

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 Taylor. Inspired by the banality of 1960's television, Chamberlain wrote and directed Brand X, an 87 minute series of faux television shows spoofing the politics and mass media of the day, complete with commercials for Sex, Sweat, Computer Dating and Peanut Butter. BRAND X follows Taylor Mead through a day in a wacky television studio as he portrays an exercise guru, a talk show host, a veteran returning from the American Civil War, a hospital patient in a soap opera, the President of the United States and a televangelist giving the Nightly Sermon. BRAND X satirizes President Nixon, the Vietnam War, sex, drugs, computers, money and race relations.

Keywords:

new york city politics political satire social satire art mockumentary