THE CREATION OF THE HUMANOIDS + SINS OF THE FLESHAPOIDS

Wesley Barry THE CREATION OF THE HUMANOIDS 1962, 84 min, 16mm “The Now Future arrived in late 1964, when David Bourdon began his lengthy Village Voice review of Andy Warhol’s ‘Flower Paintings’ with a lengthy account of Wesley Barry’s CREATION OF THE HUMANOIDS, a sci-fi cheapster as color-coded as RED DESERT and more impoverished than ALPHAVILLE… ‘The denouement comes when the heroine and the hero (a militant anti-humanoid who goes around throwing bombs at uppity “clickers”) discover themselves to be machines. This is the happy ending of what Andy Warhol calls the best movie he has ever seen.’” –J. Hoberman, “The New Futurism and the Then Zeitgeist,” ACROSS THE MOVI-VERSE

Mike Kuchar SINS OF THE FLESHAPOIDS 1965, 48 min, 16mm. With Bob Cowan, George Kuchar, Donna Kerness, Gina Zuckerman, Maren Thomas, and Julius Middleman. “In the winter of 1964-65, even before THE CREATION OF THE HUMANOIDS was listed, along with feathered boas and Warhol’s SLEEP, in a random list of things The New York Times Magazine deemed as ‘generally agreed’ examples of ‘Pure Camp,’ Mike Kuchar – a 22-year-old photo retoucher living in the Bronx – conceived his own 16mm version of Warhol’s favorite movie…the junkyard analog to the cycle of European films that includes RED DESERT, ALPHAVILLE, and THE TENTH VICTIM.” –J. Hoberman, “The New Futurism and the Then Zeitgeist,” ACROSS THE MOVI-VERSE

Total running time: ca. 135 min.

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