Andy Warhol's couch: where Beat poets got naked and the counterculture was born.
The couch at Andy Warhol's Factory was as famous in its own right as any of his Superstars. In Couch, visitors to the Factory were invited to "perform" on camera, seated on the old couch. Their many acts-both lascivious and mundane-are documented in a film that has come to be regarded as one of the most notorious of Warhol's early works. Across the course of the film we encounter such figures as poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, the writer Jack Kerouac, and perennial New York figure Taylor Mead.
Direction
Warhol's static camera dares you to look away.
Production
The Factory itself: chaotic, sacred, irreproducible space.
Director
Andy Warhol
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Couch captured the Factory's queer underground before Stonewall made it speakable.
The actual couch was eventually thrown out; this film is its only immortality.
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