Episode 59: Andy Warhol: Movies Emerge from the Underground - Part 1
The Factory scene produced all sorts of art, including films. We start with Warhol’s anti-film Sleep and dive into underground movies from the period and The Factory’s influence on them. We then shift gears to discuss how that approach popped-up in later “low-fi” movies like John Waters’ Pink Flamingos.
E X T R A S :
(Top to bottom): Film stills from Sleep, Chelsea Girls and Empire; poster for Chelsea Girls
(Top to bottom): The projectionist (and later experimental filmmaker) Ken Jacobs, Paul Morrissey who directed many of Warhol’s films, poster for John Waters’ Pink Flamingos which was influenced by Warhol’s anti-films
Andy Warhol Timeline (Rebecca Lowrey)
Andy Warhol Biography
(MoMA, The Andy Warhol Museum, Wikipedia)
“Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film” by Ric Burns
- Part 1 (YouTube), Part 2 (YouTube)
- Sleep (film clip)
- Chelsea Girls (film clip)
- Empire (entire film)