Taylor Mead, a poet, actor and exuberant bohemian who colluded with Andy Warhol in the 1960s to nurture a new approach to making movies - sometimes spontaneously, always inexpensively (hand-held 16-millimeter cameras sufficed) and brashly experimental (one film consisted of an hourlong shot of Mr. Mead's bare posterior) - died on Wednesday in Colorado. He was 88. ...
It was as an actor in what was called the New American Cinema in the 1960s that he made his biggest mark. Warhol recruited him as one of his first "superstars," and from 1963 to 1968 he made 11 films with Mr. Mead. In all, Mr. Mead figured that he had made about 130 movies, many of them so spontaneous that they involved only one take.
The film critic J. Hoberman called Mr. Mead "the first underground movie star." The film historian P. Adams Sitney called one of Mr. Mead's earliest films, "The Flower Thief" (1960), "the purest expression of the Beat sensibility in cinema." ...
In 2005 Mr. Mead, who left no immediate survivors, was the subject of a documentary, "Excavating Taylor Mead," directed by William A. Kirkley. The same year he published a book of poems, "A Simple Country Girl." One poem declares: "I am a national treasure/If there were such a thing."
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