Tiger Morse

United States, 1967

Avant-Garde, Short

Synopsis

Joan “Tiger” Morse, the inventor of vinyl light-up mini-dresses, celebrator of all things silver, and a known amphetamine addict, delivers a 33-minute monologue that touches relevant issues of 1967 and the marvellous, party-filled, mod world in which she lived. Reel 14 of **** (Four Stars).

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Tiger Morse Directed by Andy Warhol

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Awards & Festivals

International Film Festival Rotterdam

2014

Viennale

2014

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Cast & Crew

Critics reviews

The laconic, outrageously sincere patience of Warhol’s earlier films is gone—his passive gaze is now violent, clipped, gratuitously bored. The camera zips around the room and interrupts Morse’s monologue with random ‘strobe cuts’—it’s a brutal, hyperactive valentine with an amphetamine pulse. One leaves TIGER MORSE feeling like Warhol had nowhere else to go, that whatever aborted aesthetic he was working towards would have been radical and frightening, overflowing with irreproachable love.

Kyle A. Westphal

April 17, 2015

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