In 1969, Taylor Mead complained to his friend artist Wynn Chamberlain that Andy Warhol had never paid him for any of the work he had done for him and Wynn said he would make a film especially for Taylor. Inspired by the banality of 1960's television, Chamberlain wrote and directed Brand X, an 87 minute series of faux television shows spoofing the politics and mass media of the day, complete with commercials for Sex, Sweat, Computer Dating and Peanut Butter. BRAND X follows Taylor Mead through a day in a wacky television studio as he portrays an exercise guru, a talk show host, a veteran returning from the American Civil War, a hospital patient in a soap opera, the President of the United States and a televangelist giving the Nightly Sermon. BRAND X satirizes President Nixon, the Vietnam War, sex, drugs, computers, money and race relations.
Taylor Mead
as Viewer / President / Minster / Nurse
Sally Kirkland
as Patient / President's Wife
Abbie Hoffman
as Policeman (Lawren Order)
Candy Darling
as Marlene D-Train
Ultra Violet
as Singer
Tally Brown
as Talk Show Hostess
Frank Cavestani
as Doctor
Susanna Baumgard
as Patient
Paul Fagan
as Surfer
Jane Holzer
as
Sam Shepard
as
John Rainer Long
as
