Brand X (1970)
The movie for people.
87 min
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.
- Release date
- May 18, 1970
- Country of origin
- Not yet available · likely United States (estimated from cast and crew)
Cast
- Taylor Mead as Viewer
- Taylor Mead as President
- Taylor Mead as Minster
- Sally Kirkland as Patient
- Sally Kirkland as President's Wife
- Tally Brown as Talk Show Hostess
- Frank Cavestani as Doctor
- Abbie Hoffman as Policeman (Lawren Order)
- Ultra Violet as Singer
- Susanna Baumgard as Patient
- Candy Darling as Marlene D-Train
- Paul Fagan as Surfer
- Jane Holzer
Crew
- Win Chamberlain · Director
- Win Chamberlain · Writer
- Win Chamberlain · Producer
- Ken Lauber · Composer
- John Harnish · Cinematographer
- Win Chamberlain · Editor
- Karen Edwards · Editor
- John Harnish · Editor
- Mike Misch · Editor