George Manupelli

Emerald Cities

Emerald Cities, completing the trilogy, is a story about a young woman who runs off from her Death Valley home to seek her fortune. Her drunken dad still stuck in his Santa suit from the local Christmas pagent, follows and soon comes in contact with the "new dark ages" of 1984. Juxtapositions of "on-the street" interviews (by Willie Boy Walker), punk performances by bands Flipper and The Mutants, TV shows of past-life hypnotism and nuclear destruction, and a crazed ex-con all finally intermix with the characters' own sagas.

Become an Artist

Satirizes television pitches, art schools, and the self-importance of artists.

Almost Crying

A 400 year old samurai encounters a modern feminist couple in the woods.

Cry Dr. Chicago

The premise of the Dr. Chicago feature film trilogy is that Dr. Chicago (Alvin Lucier), a sex-change surgeon, is perpetually on the lam, fleeing the Feds and, in Cry Dr. Chicago, hotly pursued by his nemesis, a French gangster–cum–business tycoon (Claude Kipnis).

Ride Dr. Chicago Ride

From George Manupelli's Doctor Chicago trilogy, starring Alvin Lucier as the evil (and politically incorrect) surgeon on the lam, Dr. Alvin Chicago with his sidekicks Sheila Marie (Mary Ashley) and Steve (Steve Paxton, who dies, dancingly, in each episode).

Dr. Chicago

A surgeon is on the run from the police for unacknowledged reasons.

Gerard Malanga as the Baron von Richthofen

A musical sendup of the WWI flying ace starring poet/Warhol associate Gerard Malanga, then in town as a film festival juror

The House

A girl wanders through an abandoned farmhouse; doors open and close of themselves; when the girl finds a mark over a lipstick circle she had made on a mirror, the film ends.