The movie for people.
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.
May 18, 1970
15 people
Taylor Mead
Viewer / President / Minster / Nurse
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Sally Kirkland
Patient / President's Wife
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Abbie Hoffman
Policeman (Lawren Order)
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Candy Darling
Marlene D-Train
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Ultra Violet
Singer
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Tally Brown
Talk Show Hostess
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Frank Cavestani
Doctor
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Susanna Baumgard
Patient
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Paul Fagan
Surfer
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Jane Holzer
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Sam Shepard
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John Rainer Long
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