Andy Warhol built a career blurring the line between art and life, turning soup cans, celebrity portraits, and his own persona into a single body of work, and this film pulls together more than 60 interviews with the people who watched him do it: family, collaborators, and cultural figures including philosopher Arthur Danto, actor Dennis Hopper, and musician Debbie Harry. It draws on the Andy Warhol Foundation's archives for material rarely shown before, including private home-movie footage, audio tapes, and clips from Warhol's own withdrawn film experiments. The story opens at the end, with Warhol's death and the founding of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the only American museum devoted to a single artist, then works backward through his painting, screen printing, photography, and filmmaking. Contributors trace how he sensed the collapsing distance between high art and mass culture decades before it became conventional wisdom, and how thoroughly he treated documenting his own life as part of the work itself.