Piero Heliczer

Born: 1937-06-20

Piero Heliczer was an Italian-American poet, publisher, actor and underground filmmaker associated with the New American Cinema.


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Bicycle Thieves

as A young boy (uncredited)
Released: 1948-11-24

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome....

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Bengasi

as Sandrino Berti (Pucci)
Released: 1942-01-10

The film is set in 1941 during the Second World War, when the city of Benghazi in Italian-ruled...

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Flaming Creatures

as uncredited
Released: 1963-04-29

Filmmaker and artist Jack Smith described his own film as a “comedy set in a haunted movie...

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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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Birth of a Nation

as Self
Released: 1997-08-06

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

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Couch

as Himself
Released: 1964-07-01

The couch at Andy Warhol's Factory was as famous in its own right as any of his Superstars. In...

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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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Venus in Furs

as uncredited
Released: 1965-01-01

Where a nun and a nurse go to hell because of their sinful life in St. Vincent's Hospital.

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The Autumn Feast

as uncredited
Released: 1961-01-01

A deliberately non-synchronous film, shot in 8mm with the sound on tape. Piero Heliczer reads...

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