Film

TV Party

2005 · 1h 31m · Documentary · Music

The TV show that's a party!

IMDb

6.9

From 1978 to 1982, Glenn O'Brien hosted a New York city public access cable TV show called TV Party. Co-hosted by Chris Stein, from Blondie, and directed by filmmaker Amos Poe, the hour long show took television where it had never gone before: to the edge of civility and "sub-realism" as Glenn would put it. Walter Steding and his TV Party "Orchestra" provided a musical accompaniment to the madness at hand, and many artists and musicians, from The Clash, Nile Rodgers, Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Bryne and Arto Lindsey were regular guests. It was the cocktail party that could be a political party. With 80 hours of disintegrating 3/4 inch videotape as a starting point, we tracked down the trend setting participants still living today and found out what they remember of the period and how the show influenced their lives. This, combined with clips from the orginal show, became the documentary "TV Party.

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Self (archive footage)

David Bowie

Self

Clem Burke

Self

David Byrne

Self

George Clinton

Self

Fab 5 Freddy

Self

Robert Fripp

Self

Debbie Harry

Self

Michael Holman

Self

John Lurie

Self

Cookie Mueller

Self

Amos Poe

Self

Andy Warhol

Self (archive footage)

• Danny VinikDirector · Writer

Release date

August 3, 2005

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 31m

Genres

Documentary, Music