Viva Movies

Reel-to-reel video by Michel Auder, recorded 1971, edited 2009. Features Auder's former wife Viva.

At a New York City restaurant, the patrons are men, nude but for a G-string, waited on by one woman, also clad in a G-string and a G-bestringed...

New York, June 3, 1968. Valerie Solanas enters the Factory, Andy Warhol's studio, and fires three shots at him, who miraculously survives, but is...

Re-scanned TV footage of George Bush’s inauguration narrated in real-time by Gary Indiana, Viva, Alex Auder, and Nick Nehez’s grandmother.

Jonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996....

After Eduardo, an Argentine loner on the lam, arrives in the U.S. illegally, he forms a relationship with a woman and her teenage daughter.

The Feature does not reconcile fact and fiction; instead, it blurs the definitions seemingly represented by the film’s two clearly demarcated...

Trapianto heralds the end of utopia, the death of that underground, but is also the best prologue in Necropolis, which is not by chance found alive....

Documentary on Andy Warhol's cinema of the sixties, made for Channel 4 in association with The Factory, MOMA and the Whitney Museum of Art and in...

In 1969 Michel Auder began a series of video diaries that chronicled the art scene in downtown New York. In Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol, Auder...

Michel Auder’s Jesus – in which underground NY artists and Warhol superstars openly discuss their beliefs. Jesus – which premiered...

This TV documentary shows some of the colourful residents of and people connected with the New York Chelsea Hotel. Some highlights include Andy...

a fictional autobiography in which a day from the artist’s life—filtered, edited, mediated, and performed by another actor—becomes...