On Wednesday October 4th 2023, Greg Pierce, Director of Film and Video, The Andy Warhol Museum, presented a screening of Andy Warhol’s 1966 film Paranoia, (16mm film, color, sound, 66 minutes), with a cast including James Ferguson, Dicken James Acraman, Gerard Malanga, Paul Morrissey, Joan “Tiger” Morse, Nico, Ronna Page, Richard Rheem, Ingrid Superstar, and Mary Woronov, as well as several yet-unidentified others.
“We made a movie last night…It was about being paranoid in a dress shop. It’s called Paranoia.” ~ Andy Warhol
Greg Pierce noted in his remarks: “on the evening of November 8th, 1966, following the afternoon filming of The George Hamilton Story, a movie in which Warhol cast his mother Julia as an “aging peroxide movie star with a lot of husbands”, – “ We’re trying to bring back old people.” – he took his crew and a much larger cast to Kaleidoscope, fashion designer Tiger Morse’s boutique shop on Madison Avenue in New York City, to shoot his second unreleased film of the day. A nocturnal tale of downtown bulls in an uptown China shop, Paranoia is a portrait of the always captivating, always hilarious Morse as she converses with everyone in front of and behind the camera while genuinely attempting to keep the Superstars in the room from wreaking havoc on her uniquely curated curios.”