
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.
Directed by Win Chamberlain
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Cast

Taylor Mead
Viewer / President / Minster / Nurse

Sally Kirkland
Patient / President's Wife

Abbie Hoffman
Policeman (Lawren Order)

Candy Darling
Marlene D-Train

Ultra Violet
Singer

Tally Brown
Talk Show Hostess

Frank Cavestani
Doctor
Susanna Baumgard
Patient
Paul Fagan
Surfer
Jane Holzer

Sam Shepard
John Rainer Long

Pat Paulsen
President
Joe Stevens
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