Couch (1964)

Release Date:	1964, July 1
Directors:	Andy Warhol
Cast:	Gregory Corso, Rufus Collins, Mark Lancaster, Taylor Mead, Allen Ginsberg, Gerard Malanga, Ondine, Jane Holzer, Amy Taubin, Billy Name, Peter Orlovsky, Naomi Levine

Overview:

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 acts-both lascivious and mundane-are documented in a film that has come to be regarded as one of the most notorious of Warhol's early works. Across the course of the film we encounter such figures as poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, the writer Jack Kerouac, and perennial New York figure Taylor Mead.