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Warhol's Cinema: A Mirror for the Sixties
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Warhol's Cinema: A Mirror for the Sixties

1989 · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]

Andy Warhol's forays into film get a full accounting in this Channel 4 documentary, made with cooperation from The Factory, MOMA, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. The film traces how Warhol, already established as a painter and Pop artist, turned a 16mm camera on his circle at The Factory and produced work that broke almost every rule of commercial cinema: static shots, real time, no plot. Clips and discussion cover Sleep, which holds on a man sleeping for hours, Eat, which watches a single subject chew a mushroom at length, and Kiss, a series of couples filmed in unbroken close-up. Critics, collaborators, and Factory regulars describe how these films functioned as both provocation and document, capturing the Warhol scene of the 1960s as much as they capture their nominal subjects. The documentary treats the films less as curiosities than as a serious argument about what a movie camera is for, made at the exact moment Warhol was becoming as much a celebrity as the people he filmed.