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The Invisible Father

0.0 57 mins Documentary   2021
Virgil Films and Entertainment  
Director(s): Thérèse Heliczer

In the 1960s, beat poet and experimental filmmaker Piero Heliczer helped shape New American Cinema, and was enmeshed with iconic filmmaker Andy Warhol and The Velvet Underground at the very start of their careers. Through interviews with family and friends, found photos, and archival footage, Piero’s daughter, Thérèse Casper, explores the promise and perils of leading an authentic, creative life, and the impact that it can have on the people you leave behind in the process. Wondering if she can make peace with her absent father if she can find a connection to him through his art, she explores the artistic legacy and life of a man she never knew.

Casts of The Invisible Father

Jonas Mekas

as Self (archive footage)

John Cale

as Self

Ira Cohen

as Self (archival footage)

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