Cast: Mario Montez

Direction Jonas Mekas

Cast Timothy Leary · Ed Emshwiller · Jack Smith · Mario Montez

Plot Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. Walden, his first completed diary film, an epic portrait of...

Direction Ron Rice

Cast Jack Smith · Beverly Grant · Mario Montez · Joel Markman

Direction Jack Smith

Cast Francis Francine · Sheila Bick · Joel Markman · Mario Montez

Plot Jack Smith's 1963 short Flaming Creatures might be one of the most sexual perverse film ever made. It has ever amount of sexual deviance that made up the New York...

Direction Andy Warhol

Cast Mario Montez

Plot A slow-motion close-up of Mario Montez eating a banana, with a predictably suggestive, comic result.

Direction Andy Warhol

Cast Mario Montez

Plot A transvestite, Mario, eats a banana.

Direction Takahiko Iimura

Cast Mario Montez · Donna Kerness · Linda · Akiko Iimura

Plot The three faces (two women and one tranvestized man) in the series of close up, which are shot separately in their sexual process of the acting and the real, are...

Direction Jack Smith

Cast Tally Brown · Tosh Carillo · Francis Francine · Piero Heliczer

Plot Willkie was a liberal Republican who ran against FDR in the 1940's. It mixes B&W footage of Smith's creatures with old campaign footage of Willkie. The climax of the work...

Direction José Rodriguez-Soltero

Cast Mario Montez · Salvador Cruz · Dorrie · Charles Frehse

Plot The film —a mix of music, colors, abstract scenes and little dialogue— is based loosely on the life and death of Mexican-American actress Lupe Velez. The music, far more than...

Direction Andy Warhol

Cast Mario Montez · Richard Schmidt

Plot Warhol offers his own version of the notorious 1958 Johnny Stompanato murder case with this wonderfully weird "musical" starring Mario Montez as Lana Turner.

Direction Jack Smith

Cast Diana Baccus · Tony Conrad · Beverly Grant · Mario Montez

Plot The feature length Normal Love is Jack Smith’s follow up to his now legendary film Flaming Creatures. This vivid, full-color homage to B-movies is a dizzying display of camp that...