Viva Movie Trailers

The Beaches of Agnès Trailer (2008)

17 December 2008

Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary.

Paris, Texas Trailer (1984)

16 July 1984

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.

Necropolis Trailer (1970)

31 October 1970

Frankenstein's monster gropes towards the awareness that his mind is a universe; Attila, naked on a white horse, liberates his people from their ignominy; the ultra-caustic Viva bemoans the frustrations of married life and drifts into the elegiac persona of the Bloody Countess Bathory; Louis Waldon is a hip American tourist searching for the (missing) Mona Lisa.

Forbidden Zone Trailer (1980)

15 March 1980

A mysterious door in the basement of the Hercules house leads to the Sixth Dimension by way of a gigantic set of intestine.

Nico Icon Trailer (1995)

18 February 1995

A look into the many lives of Christa Päffgen, otherwise known as Nico; from cutie German mädchen to the first of the supermodels, to glamorous diva of the Velvet Underground, to cult item, junkie and hag.

Andy Warhol Trailer (1987)

09 June 1987

The first major profile of the American Pop Art cult leader after his death in 1987 covers the whole of his life and work through interviews, clips from his films, and conversations with his family and superstar friends.

Chelsea Girls with Andy Warhol Trailer (1976)

01 January 1976

In 1969 Michel Auder began a series of video diaries that chronicled the art scene in downtown New York.

Cisco Pike Trailer (1972)

14 January 1972

A down on his luck former drug dealer is forced by a corrupt LAPD policeman to sell 100 kilos of confiscated marijuana in one weekend.

Play It Again, Sam Trailer (1972)

04 May 1972

A neurotic film critic obsessed with the movie Casablanca (1942) attempts to get over his wife leaving him by dating again with the help of a married couple and his illusory idol, Humphrey Bogart.

Midnight Cowboy Trailer (1969)

25 May 1969

Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.

The New Cinema Trailer (1968)

01 January 1968

Between the French La Nouvelle Vague and the Italian Neorealismo, Europe had been undergoing a continuous cinema transformation since the 1950s, while the ailing American studio system groaned under its own weight and inertia.

The State of Things Trailer (1982)

22 March 1982

On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956).

Flash Gordon Trailer (1980)

01 September 1980

A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.

Andy Warhol Trailer (1972)

02 January 1972

With a rambling, unstructured style that echoes Andy Warhol’s own approach to filmmaking, this documentary profiles his career, showing him to be a brilliant manipulator, dedicated voyeur and person of astute commercial judgment.

Tub Girls Trailer (1967)

01 January 1967

"Tub Girls" features Warhol superstar Viva lying in a bathtub with different people of both sexes, including Brigid Berlin (as Brigid Polk), who appeared fully clothed in the tub.

Be Pretty and Shut Up! Trailer (1981)

04 March 1981

The film is a series of interviews with various well-known film actresses, including Jenny Agutter, Maria Schneider, and Jane Fonda.

San Diego Surf Trailer (1968)

01 August 1968

Viva and Taylor Mead are a married couple renting an extra beach-house to a group of surfers sent to them by a Mr.

Lonesome Cowboys Trailer (1968)

01 November 1968

Five lonesome cowboys get all hot and bothered at home on the range after confronting Ramona Alvarez and her nurse.

The Nude Restaurant Trailer (1967)

13 November 1967

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 waiter.

Ornette: Made in America Trailer (1986)

21 February 1986

Shirley Clarke's frenetic documentary about multi-talented musician Ornette Coleman.

Four Stars Trailer (1967)

15 December 1967

Photographed entirely in color, Four Stars was projected in its complete length of nearly 25 hours (allowing for projection overlap of the 35-minute reels) only once, at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque in New York City.

Cleopatra Trailer (1970)

30 July 1970

Cleopatra situates itself in the same relationship to Hollywood as the Warhol/Morrisey films of the period.

Jesus Trailer (1979)

01 January 1979

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

Langlois Trailer (1970)

19 September 1970

Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française.

Birth of a Nation Trailer (1997)

06 August 1997

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

The Loves of Ondine Trailer (1968)

01 August 1968

Ondine is a gay man attempting to re-adjust his sexuality via various encounters with different women.

News from Nowhere Trailer (2010)

02 September 2010

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.

Warhol's Cinema 1963-1968: Mirror for the Sixties Trailer (1989)

01 January 1989

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 collaboration with Simon Field.

Chelsea Hotel Trailer (1981)

03 January 1981

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

Transplantation, Consumption and Death of Franco Brocani Trailer (1969)

01 January 1969

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.

The Man Without a Face Trailer (1993)

25 August 1993

Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town after his face is disfigured from an automobile accident ten years earlier, in which a boy was incinerated--and for which he was convicted of involuntary manslaughter.

The Feature Trailer (2008)

28 November 2008

The Feature does not reconcile fact and fiction; instead, it blurs the definitions seemingly represented by the film’s two clearly demarcated registers: that of the archival footage and that of the new, theatrical material.

Lions Love Trailer (1969)

12 October 1969

Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.

Chronicles: Morocco Trailer (1972)

01 January 1972

The Chronicles capture the natural and cultural beauty of Morocco from its ancient walled villages to its nomadic caravans.

1967 Trailer (2015)

01 January 2015

1967 (made in 2015) presents newly found and digitized silent 16mm films from the 1960s in the form of a four-part composition portraying a cast of artists, writers, musicians and actors who made up the bohemian underground of that time.

Keeping Busy Trailer (1969)

26 November 1969

Warhol Superstars Viva and Louis Waldon are the main subjects of Auder’s first film with synched sound, Keeping Busy (1969), which was billed as “a film novel about what they did to keep busy.

Confession Trailer (2009)

01 January 2009

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

Viva Varda! Trailer (1970)

01 January 1970

Director Agnès Varda talks with LIONS LOVE (. . . AND LIES) star Viva about their work together, in this long-lost interview conducted for French television in 1970.

Memória da memória Trailer (2013)

01 July 2013

Reviewing home videos, filmmaker Paula Gaitán constructs a curious narrative about her youth while talking to her children.

The Stone Age Trailer (1970)

31 January 1970

"The question is, it is either going to be a stoned age or a new Stone Age" - Louis Brigante

Home Movies: NYC to San Diego Trailer (1968)

01 January 1968

“The film flickers through a millennium of culture as it would appear to a tourist. It is an intense film, yet there is an incredible wealth of information surprisingly accessible.

Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol Trailer (1990)

18 July 1990

Iconic American artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol is the subject of this documentary, which looks at both his life and his influence on pop culture.

Bike Boy Trailer (1967)

05 October 1967

Joe Spencer, a member of a motorcycle gang, is taking a shower. After his bout with personal hygiene, Joe encounters Andy Warhol's "superstars," who engage him in conversation.

The Swap Trailer (1979)

12 October 1979

Vito gets out of jail after serving ten years and tries to find out who killed his younger brother.

Ciao! Manhattan Trailer (1973)

19 April 1973

Fiction and documentary mingle in a freewheeling portrait of Susan Superstar, a New York celebrity on a drug-fueled downward slide that mirrors Edie Sedgwick’s own self-destructive spiral.

1/20/01 Trailer (2001)

01 January 2001

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

Positano Trailer (2008)

30 November 2008

Positano is an island of the Amalfi Coast that Neptune would have, according to legend, created for the love of a nymph.

New Old Trailer (1979)

21 November 1979

"Chronicles of the Present Times" - An experimental trilogy. New Old flows together footage from more than a decade of his wandering between scenes, sets, and drugs, an accelerated world tour through various iterations of the counterculture.

Sam's Song Trailer (1969)