San Diego Surf

San Diego Surf (1968)

Viva and Taylor Mead are a married couple renting an extra beach-house to a group of surfers sent to them by a Mr. Morrissey of La Jolla Realty. Their daughter, Ingrid Superstar, is pregnant and on the hunt for a husband. Mr. Mead, who is gay, tries to pawn her off to one of the surfers. Meanwhile, Viva wants a divorce from her boy-crazy hubby, who wants a surfer of his own. Tom, a surfer, is inveigled by Mr. Mead to urinate on him. In a close-up, Mr. Mead receives Tom's offering ecstatically, after which he comments, "I'm a real surfer now."

Date of release
1968-08-01
TMDB
9.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Andy Warhol, Paul Morrissey

Casting

Interesting facts

San Diego Surf is a 1968 feature film directed by Andy Warhol. The film stars Viva, Taylor Mead, Joe Dallesandro, Ingrid Superstar, Tom Hompertz, Eric Emerson, Nawana Davis, Michael Boosin, and Louis Waldon.

Production

The film was shot in La Jolla, California in May 1968 as a follow-up to Warhol's Lonesome Cowboys (1968) with much of the same cast. Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey operated two cameras to capture the 16mm color footage.

On June 3, 1968, Warhol was shot by Valerie Solanas, bringing work on the film to a halt. In 1995, Morrissey was commissioned by the Andy Warhol Foundation to finish editing the film using the original editing notes by Warhol and Jed Johnson.

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