The couch at Andy Warhol’s Factory was as famous in its own right as any of his Superstars. In Couch, visitors to the Factory were invited to “perform” on camera, seated on the old couch. Their many acts—both lascivious and mundane—are documented in a film that has come to be regarded as one of the most notorious of Warhol’s early works. Across the course of the film we encounter such figures as poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, the writer Jack Kerouac, and perennial New York figure Taylor Mead.

Since is a rare, unfinished work that portrays the Kennedy and Oswald assassinations. The dramatic action is re-enacted on a couch at the Factory multiple times and even in slow motion—as Warhol said, “just like we’ve seen on TV.” Here Ondine stars as LBJ, Mary Woronov as JFK, and Ingrid Superstar as “Loonybird” Johnson. The Kennedy assassination and its iterative presence in the mass media became a source of visual and social investigation for a number of experimental film and video makers of the period (Bruce Conner, Ant Farm). Warhol himself had already engaged the subject and method in such paintings as 16 Jackies (1964), which featured serial images of Jacqueline Kennedy.