Charles Henri Ford

Born: 1908-02-10

Charles Henri Ford was many things in addition to filmmaker. A pioneer of American surrealism, Ford’s creative activities as a poet, photographer, publisher and general bohemian bon vivant, spanned much of the last century and cultivated intimate connections and collaborations with legendary intellectual and artistic figures ranging from Gertrude Stein to Andy Warhol. Paralleling his artistic trajectory in the avant-garde, as an openly queer man, Ford’s life and work was also at the vanguard of mid-twentieth century sexual politics, and like his gay colleagues and contemporaries— Allen Ginsburg and Kenneth Anger, for example— Ford’s art fused his outsider sexual status with the vital underground sensibility of the poets, painters, and filmmakers with whom he associated. (from: http://pdome.org/2014/johnny-minotaur-with-mm-serra-from-the-new-york-film-makers-cooperative-in-person-25th-anniversary-party/)


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Andy Warhol Screen Tests

as Self
Released: 1965-11-28

The films were made between 1964 and 1966 at Warhol's Factory studio in New York City. Subjects...

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Poem Posters

as Self (voice)
Released: 1967-05-19

... with real-life portraits of Jayne Mansfield, Frak O'Hara, Ruth Ford, Ned Rorem, Virgil...

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No President

as uncredited
Released: 1969-02-02

Smith's third feature film was originally titled "The Kidnapping of Wendell Willkie by the Love...

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Joan of Arc

as Self
Released: 1967-01-10

The story of Joan of Arc as applied to the present revolution in arts and more. The Gothic is...

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Johnny Minotaur

as uncredited
Released: 1971-04-07

Johnny Minotaur is a lyrical explosion of taboos: incest, intergenerational desire, pansexuality...

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