# Rene Ricard

**Section:** Film performances

| Year | Title | Director | Format | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | Queen of the Night Gotta Box of Light | Saul Levine | 16 mm, black & white, silent, 4 minutes | Starring Vivian Kurz, with Ivan Cohn, Andrew Meyer and Rene Ricard. In this impressionistic portrait Kurz, Cohn, Meyer and Ricard are shown hanging out at Kurz's Cambridge apartment getting high. |
| 1965 | Kitchen | Andy Warhol | 16 mm, black & white, 66 minutes | Theater of the Ridiculous playwright Ronald Tavel scripted this absurdist satire on the bourgeois household. The filming takes place in a real kitchen, with Edie Sedgwick and Roger Trudeau playing an unhappy married couple. |
| 1966 | Screen Test: Rene Ricard | Andy Warhol | 16 mm, black & white, silent, 4 minutes | Between 1964 and 1966 Andy Warhol pioneered a unique type of cinematic portraiture. In the screen tests, Warhol adopted a consistent, disarmingly straightforward approach in which each subject was asked to sit motionless before his stationary camera. |
| 1966 | Chelsea Girls | Andy Warhol | 16 mm, black & white, 195/210 minutes | Warhol's most famous film, is a series of twelve uncut reels each depicting the goings-on in a different room of the Chelsea Hotel. |
| 1966 | An Early Clue to a New Direction | Andrew Meyer / Victor Hack | 16 mm, black & white, 28 minutes | Featuring Joy Bang, Prescott Townsend, Rene Ricard. Music by the Unidentified Flying Objects. |
| 1966 | Hall of Mirrors | Walter Sonbert | 16 mm, black & white/color, 7 minutes | Warren Sonbert (1947 - 1995), an independent filmmaker renowned for his avant-garde, diarist style, began producing films in 1966. This film is an outgrowth of one of Sonbert's film classes at NYU in which he was given out takes from a 1947 Hollywood murder film photographed by Hal Mohr to re-edit into a narrative sequence. |
| 1966 | The Andy Warhol Story | Andy Warhol | 16 mm, black & white | The notorious unreleased film in which both Ricard and Sedgwick viciously imitate Warhol. Notorious unreleased lost film in which both Ricard and Sedgwick viciously imitate Warhol. |
| 1967 | B.O.N.Y. (aka Boys of New York) | Gregg Barrios | 16 mm, black & white | Cast: Gerard Malanga, Rene Ricard, Ivy Nicholson (Vogue model) and Leonard Cohen (singer). |
| 1967 | Joan of Arc | Piero Heliczer | Color withy sound on tape; 11 minutes | Poet turned filmmaker, Piero Heliczer was among the most notable of underground directors of the mid '60s. In a cast that included Ira Cohen, Gerard Malanga, Jack Smith and Andy Warhol, Rene Ricard played the title role of Joan of Arc dressed as a 1950s French maid. |
| 1967 | **** (aka Four Stars) | Andy Warhol | 16 mm, 1500 minutes | Warhol's ambitious follow-up to Chelsea Girls, **** [aka Four Stars] consisted of 94 color sound half-hour reels projected superimposed two at a time over a continuous span of 25 hours, shown only once in its entirety in December 1967. |
| 1968 | Pre-Raphaelite Dream | Gerard Malanga | 16 mm | Cast included: Loulou de la Falaise, International Velvet, John Weiners, Emma Malagna, Mario Anniballi, and Rene Ricard. |
| 1973 | An American Family | Craig Gilbert | Television documentary series | An American Family, the 1973 cinema verité production that followed the lives of Bill and Pat Loud of Santa Barbara, Calif., and their five children: Michele, Delilah, Grant, Kevin and Lance. |
| 1978 | Sleepless Nights | Becky Johnston | Super 8 mm; 49 minutes | Written by Becky Johnson and Gary Indiana. Original score by John Lurie. |
| 1979 | Red Italy | Eric Mitchell | Black & white, 55 minutes | Second feature film by director Eric Mitchell is a Bertolucci-style story of a bored, rich woman looking for romance and adventure. |
| 1980 | Underground USA | Eric Mitchell | Color, 85 minutes | "Street hustler Mitchell forces his way into the life of has-been movie star Astor. Rambling but fascinating; a sort of punk rock Sunset Boulevard". |
| 1995 | On Seventh Avenue | Jeff Bleckner | Television pilot, 97 minutes | A fashion designer desperately attempts to rescue her father's apparel business, left in shambles by her brother. Rene Ricard in a role as a journalist. |
| 1999 | After the Fall | Michele Civetta | 16 mm, color, 10 minutes | A father grieves over the loss of his wife after his indiscretions with a young girl. Rene Ricard plays the protagonist of the film and appears in every scene. |
| 2010 | You Won't Miss Me | Ry Russo-Young | Color, 81 minutes | A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three-year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital. Starring Stella Schnabel, featuring Rene Ricard and introducing other notable New York personalities. |
| 2014 | Asthma | Jake Hoffman | Color | Directing debut by Jake Hoffman (son of Dustin Hoffman). Ricard plays an extravagantly over-the-top drug dealer named Juan. |